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Maximum A Posteriori

Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) Estimationโ€‹

Tries to maximize the posterior.

argmaxฮธf(ฮธโˆฃx1,x2,x3โ‹ฏโ€‰)\text{argmax}_\theta f(\theta | x_1, x_2, x_3 \cdots)

Can be thought of as "regularized" MLE (?)