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Could some give an examples of "a set of distributions indexed by a parameter"?
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From: JJJohn
asked Oct 12, 2019 at 9:23, edited Jun 12, 2020 at 10:38
Could some give an examples of "a set of distributions indexed by a parameter"?
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The log-likelihood is, as the term suggests, the natural logarithm of the likelihood.
In turn, given a sample and a parametric family of distributions (i.e., a set of distributions indexed by a parameter) > that could have generated the sample, the likelihood is a function that associates to each parameter the probability > (or probability density) of observing the given sample.
I cannot imagine what "a set of distributions indexed by a parameter" is.
Is it something like a set of different normal distributions?
For example,
\(\large X_{\theta_1} \sim {\mathcal {N}}(\mu_1 ,\sigma_1 ^{2})\),
\(\large X_{\theta_2} \sim {\mathcal {N}}(\mu_2 ,\sigma_2 ^{2})\),
...
parameter vector is \(\large \theta = [\mu, \sigma^{2}]\)
Does "a set of different normal distributions" imply this kind of families?
Could some give an examples of "a set of distributions indexed by a parameter"?
The term "indexed" is the most confusing part,
which reminds me something like a sequence of id \(\large {1, 2, \cdots}\)
A
From: littleO
answered Oct 12, 2019 at 9:44
For example, the set of all functions \(\large f\), such that
$\large f(x) = \begin{cases} \lambda e^{- \lambda x} & \quad \text{if } x \geq 0,\ 0 & \quad \text{otherwise}
\end{cases} $ ,otherwise for some number \(\large \lambda > 0\)
Reply by JJJohn:
Thank you! Is or is not my example \(\large X_{\theta_1} \sim {\mathcal {N}}(\mu_1 ,\sigma_1 ^{2})\), \(\large X_{\theta_2} \sim {\mathcal {N}}(\mu_2 ,\sigma_2 ^{2})\), a parametric family of distributions? –
That example is fine. Ctrl+F to "We want to solve" here.