Maximum Likelihood Estimate

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-016753",
  "term": "Maximum Likelihood Estimate",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Statistical method for estimating a population parameter most likely to have produced the sample observations.\n\n2. Estimate of a population parameter most likely to have produced the sample observations.\n\n3. Statistical method for estimating model parameters. Generally provides a mean or central tendency estimate, as opposed to a confidence limit on the estimate.\n\n4. Statistical method for estimating model parameters. Generally provides a mean or central tendency estimate, as opposed to a confidence limit on the estimate. (EPA 2003)\n\n5. Most accurate maximum likelihood estimate is, by definition, the mode of a data set (i.e., the most frequent observation). When data are too limited to identify a clear mode, the average or the median of the data is usually substituted. For some air toxics for which adequate human data exist, EPA has based the unit risk estimate on the maximum-likelihood estimate for response data or for fitted curves.",
  "abbreviation": "MLE",
  "subject": "Science and research",
  "see_also": [
    "Maximum Likelihood Method"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Glossary",
    "Benchmark Dose Software (BMDS) Glossary of Terms",
    "EPA 2003",
    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment",
    "National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/maximum-likelihood-estimate/"
}