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The use of minimum χ2 as an approximation to the method of maximum likelihood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Harold Jeffreys
Harold Jeffreys
Affiliation:
St John's College
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Suppose that we have a set of observed frequencies classified in groups, the number in a typical group being nr, and that we wish to estimate the expectations in the groups according to some law with adjustable parameters. If these expectations are mr we take

Σ denoting summation over the groups, and according to the law in question the probability that one observation should come in the rth group is mr/N. The joint probability, for given mr, that there should be n1 observations in the first group, n2 in the second and so on, is therefore

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 1938 , pp. 156 - 157
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1938

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