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 Estimation techniques: Ordinary least squares and maximum likelihood
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.. post:: 2014-11-05
   :category: research

.. previewimage:: NR-surf.png

A chapter on estimation techniques has appeared in the edited volume
`Regression Analysis and Causal Inference
<http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book238839/toc>`__, edited by Henning Best
and Christof Wolf and published by Sage. A companion website is `here
<https://study.sagepub.com/bestwolf>`__.

.. figure:: NR-surf.png
   :figwidth: 350px
   :align: center
            
   An illustration of the Newton-Raphson algorithm used to maximize a
   log-likelihood function.