What’s the difference between Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) and Maximum A Posteriori (MAP)?

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4 min readOct 5, 2021
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) and Maximum A Posteriori (MAP), are both methods for estimating variable from probability distributions or graphical models. They are similar, as they compute a single estimate, instead of a full distribution.

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