User talk:Xappppp From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A proof of Maximum Likelihood Estimator 1. Proving Convergence in Probability if set S n ( θ ) = 1 n ∂ l o g l ( θ ) ∂ θ {\displaystyle \,\,\,S_{n}(\theta )={\frac {1}{n}}{\frac {\partial logl(\theta )}{\partial \theta }}\,\,\,} , then usually we will have following conditions: E S n ( θ ) = 0 , − S n ′ ( θ ) > 0 {\displaystyle ES_{n}(\theta )=0,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,-S'_{n}(\theta ^{})>0} and we know P ( | θ m l e − θ | ≥ δ ) = P ( θ m l e ≥ θ + δ ) + P ( θ m l e ≤ θ − δ ) {\displaystyle P(|\theta _{mle}-\theta |\geq \delta )=P(\theta _{mle}\geq \theta +\delta )+P(\theta _{mle}\leq \theta -\delta )} so P ( θ m l e ≥ θ + δ ) = P ( 0 ≤ S n ( θ + δ ) ) = P ( 0 ≤ S n ( θ ) + δ S n ′ ( θ ∗ ) ) = P ( S n ( θ ) ≥ − δ S n ′ ( θ ∗ ) ) ≤ P ( S n ( θ ) > 0 ) → 0 ( s i n c e S n ( θ ) → a . s . 0 ) {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}P(\theta _{mle}\geq \theta +\delta )&=P(0\leq S_{n}(\theta +\delta ))\\&=P(0\leq S_{n}(\theta )+\delta S'_{n}(\theta ^{*}))\\&=P(S_{n}(\theta )\geq -\delta S'_{n}(\theta ^{*}))\\&\leq P(S_{n}(\theta )>0)\rightarrow 0\,\,\,\,\,\,\,(\,\,\,since\,\,\,S_{n}(\theta )\rightarrow _{a.s.}0\,\,)\end{aligned}}} similarly P ( θ m l e ≤ θ − δ ) → 0 {\displaystyle P(\theta _{mle}\leq \theta -\delta )\rightarrow 0} thus complete the proof of θ m l e → p θ {\displaystyle \theta _{mle}\rightarrow _{p}\theta } 2. Derive limiting distribution given θ m l e → p θ {\displaystyle \theta _{mle}\rightarrow _{p}\theta } we will have S n ( θ m l e ) = 0 = S n ( θ ) + ( θ − θ m l e ) S n ′ ( θ ) + o p ( θ − θ m l e ) {\displaystyle S_{n}(\theta _{mle})=0=S_{n}(\theta _{})+(\theta -\theta _{mle})S'_{n}(\theta _{})+o_{p}(\theta -\theta _{mle})} which indicates n ( θ m l e − θ ) = n S n ( θ ) S n ′ ( θ ) + o p ( 1 ) → N ( 0 , I 1 [ θ ] ) I 1 [ θ ] = N ( 1 , I 1 − 1 [ θ ] ) {\displaystyle {\sqrt {n}}(\theta _{mle}-\theta _{})={\frac {{\sqrt {n}}S_{n}(\theta _{})}{S'_{n}(\theta _{})+o_{p}(1)}}\rightarrow {\frac {N(0,I_{1}[\theta ])}{I_{1}[\theta ]}}=N(1,I_{1}^{-1}[\theta ])} Related Articles