Maximum likelihood estimator

Version 1.01 (1.42 MB) by Duncan Carlsmith
Illustrate maximum likelihood estimation of a custom probability distribution
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llustrates maximum likelihood estimation of a custom probability distribution from scratch and compares fit parameter results to results from MATLAB's function mle. The illustrative example is a 5-parameter fit to simulated samples of a peaked signal and exponentially decaying background.

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Duncan Carlsmith (2026). Maximum likelihood estimator (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/100888-maximum-likelihood-estimator), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2021b
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