🍔 Maximum likelihood estimation

=== estimating the parameters of an assumed 📊 Probability distribution, as the 5️⃣ Relative frequency¹==

Formula

$P(W_1...W_n)=\frac{C(W_1..W_N)}{N}$

📖 Example:

• P(“B”) in “Bobby”
  • C(“B”) = 3
  • N = 5
  • → 0.6

🔗 Links

🔮 Word Prediction

Footnotes

1. Probability estimates (Stanford) ↩