Maximum likelihood estimation 30 History of engineering and technology 6 Maximum likelihood estimator 6 Maximum-likelihood estimation 6 maximum likelihood estimation 6 Parameter estimation 5 Research & information: general 4 Stochastic systems 4 Technology: general issues 4 Cramer Rao lower bound 3 Data models 3 Gamma distribution 3 Inverse problems 3 Mean square error 3 Received signal strength 3 Risk perception 3 Time difference of arrival 3 Time-difference-of-arrival 3 Base stations 2 Bayesian 2 Broadband networks 2 Convergence 2 Covariance matrix 2 DNA barcoding 2 Decoding 2 Entropy 2 Fisher information matrix 2 Gaussian distribution 2 Humans 2 Learning algorithms 2