English Explanatory Dictionary

Whittle likelihood

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An approximation to the likelihood function of a stationary Gaussian time series.

Word forms

Whittle likelihood Whittle likelihoods

Etymology

Named after the mathematician and statistician Peter Whittle, who introduced it in his PhD thesis in 1951.

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