On this pageMaximum A PosterioriMaximum A Posteriori (MAP) Estimationโ Tries to maximize the posterior. argmaxฮธf(ฮธโฃx1,x2,x3โฏโ)\text{argmax}_\theta f(\theta | x_1, x_2, x_3 \cdots)argmaxฮธโf(ฮธโฃx1โ,x2โ,x3โโฏ) Can be thought of as "regularized" MLE (?)