Re: Maximum Likelihood Question

2001-12-23 Thread Jimc10
To all, Thanks so much for all your ideas and insights thus far. To those who have suggested a Baysean approach, I am interested, but I am weeks away from understanding it well enough to figure out if I can use it. Also, I think I am close to developing a usable technique along my current line.

Maximum Likelihood Question

2001-12-16 Thread Jimc10
To all who have helped me on the previous thread thank you very much. I am reposting this beause the question has become more focused. I am studying a stochastic Markov process and using a maximum likelihood technique to fit observed data to theoretical models. As a first step I am using a Monte

Maximum Likelihood, Likelihood Ratio, & Chi Square

2001-12-11 Thread Jimc10
I am using a maximum likelihood algorythym to fit an electophysiologic data to a series of theoretical models. I am interesting in comparing two models wich differ in the number of free parameters, the simpler being a subhypothesis of the more complex. I was told (and have read) that the followi

Smoothing, F-test, and Degrees of Freedom

2001-01-08 Thread Jimc10
I am using non-linear regression to fit electophysiological data (current vs t) to exponential equations. I am using an F-test on the residual sum of squares to determine how many components are required. A typical trace will have several thousand points. Question: If I use an adjacent average tec