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2007 Jan 11
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maximum likelihood, 1st and 2nd derivative
Hi guys again, it seems I haven't been doing the maximum likelihood estimation correctly. I quote below, can someone explain to me please what does it mean that the 2nd and 3rd derivatives of the function equals zero and how to compute that in R. "We have our initial estimated, subjective parameters for the gamma mixture and we have our likelihood that is the mixture of negative