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2008 Jan 25
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Poisson Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Hi I am trying to carry out some maximum likelihood estimation and I'm not making much headway, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to point me in the right direction. I am modelling mortality statistics. One way to do this is to model the mortality rate (or, more accurately, log of the mortality rate, log_m) as (say) a constant plus a proportion of age, plus time, so: r_1 <-