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Glossary: Probability for ML

Grid

Also written: grid search, np.linspace, linspace

Evenly spaced candidate values to try, such as the 99 values of p made by `np.linspace(0.01, 0.99, 99)`. You compute the likelihood at each and pick the best.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

Maximum likelihood estimate (MLE)argmax / argmin (np.argmax, np.argmin)