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Tremendous bug using EstimatedDistribution (using NMinimize) in v8.0 and v10.2

Let's define F4 and estimate the distribution of the data: ...
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Performance of a bootstrap - time of computation not linear with number of iterations

I'm doing a bootstrap based on this thread with the following code (file.txt here): ...
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Performance in calculating maximum-likelihood- based estimates

My probability density function is a complicated one for which numerical estimation is necessary. Here my pdf: ...
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Fastest way to approximate CDF in Mathematica

I need a very fast way to approximate the CDF of HypergeometricDistribution in Mathematica. I need to evaluate it for very large ...
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Efficient maximisation of log-likelihood

I would like to efficiently find the maximum $(\sigma,\lambda)$ for the log-likelihood of the derived distribution below. I only need $\sigma$ and $\lambda$ to one decimal place - so not very precise. ...
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What is the maximum likelihood estimator of a distribution with PDF, $f(x) = x/8$ for $x$ in $[0,\theta]$?

If I input: ...
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FindMaximum for LogLikelihood fails for multiple parameters

I need to fit a non-analytic data set to another data set using at least 2 parameters: shift and scale. For my 2 data sets (data1 and ...
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Minimize Function does not give a solution

I would be tremendously grateful for help with this one: I wrote a function that, for a given frequency distribution (observed data) that i call fbar, and a probability distribution function of the ...
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Find the maximum of a SmoothKernelDistribution

I am trying to find the maximum of a PDF calculated using the SmoothKernelDistribution function. I do so by solving the first order condition but Mathematica seems ...
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