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Statistical model for quantities that add up to 1
I want to create a model for quantities $z$ that live in a probability simplex, that is, they are nonnegative and always add up to 1:
$$ S = \left\{z \in \mathbb{R}^{k} : z_1 + \dots + z_{k} = 1, z_i \...
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What is the "direct likelihood" point of view in statistics?
I am reading a Springer title from 1997 called Applied Generalized Linear Models by James K. Lindsey. In the preface, Lindsey writes
For this text, the reader is assumed to have knowledge of basic ...
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