The maximum likelihood data singular locus

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2016.08.007MaRDI QIDQ321282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emil Horobeţ, Jose Israel Rodriguez

Publication date 13 October 2016

Published in Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09225

zbMATH Keywords

data singular locusmaximum likelihood degreeML discriminant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: For general data, the number of complex solutions to the likelihood equations is constant and this number is called the (maximum likelihood) ML-degree of the model. In this article, we describe the special locus of data for which the likelihood equations have a solution in the model's singular locus.

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