Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis - Maximum Likelihood Estimation Example: Fitting a Normal Distribution with Data

Here we demontrate how maximum likelihood estimation works by fitting a normal distribution with data. This video was produced at the University of Washington, and we acknowledge funding support from the Boeing Company %%% CHAPTERS %%% 00:00 Intro 01:18 Formulating the Joint PDF 04:22 Calculating the Log Joint PDF 06:18 Calculating the Log Likelihood 08:17 Deriving the Optimizer 10:51 Solving for mu 12:42 Solving for sigma 14:05 Summary & Outro