Peter Flom wrote:
>
> Ummmmm, could we restrain the debate to statistical issues, and not get
> into politics and name-calling?
An excellent plan.
My own understanding is that *if* we know for sure that the population
distribution is from a certain parametric family, there are good
arguments for ML.
The problems arise if we think (or assume) we know this and it's not
so.
-Robert Dawson
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