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Trends using Maximum Likelihood

May 6, 2009 – 5:59 PM

For a seemingly simple topic, the calculation of trends and their confidence intervals has provoked a lot of commentary (see any number of threads at Lucia’s). Today, I’m presenting what I think is an interesting approach to the problem using maximum likelihood. In a way, the approach builds on work that I did last year […]

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