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Obtain the maximum likelihood estimator of the mean vector and variance-covariance matrix of the multivariate normal distribution.

02 Apr 2024
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Sure, let's denote our multivariate normal distribution as \( N(\boldsymbol{\mu}, \boldsymbol{\Sigma}) \), where \( \boldsymbol{\mu} \) is the mean vector and \( \boldsymbol{\Sigma} \) is the variance-covariance matrix.

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x_1 x_2 x_3 x_4 y_1 y_2 y_3 y_4
10 10 10 8 8.04 9.14 7.46 6.58
8 8 8 8 6.95 8.14 6.77 5.76
13 13 13 8 7.58 8.74 12.74 7.71
9 9 9 8 8.81 8.77 7.11 8.84
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6 6 6 8 7.24 6.13 6.08 5.25
4 4 4 19 4.26 3.10 5.39 12.50
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7 7 7 8 4.82 7.26 6.42 7.91
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