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Maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is a well known estimator in statistics. The popularity of this estimator stems from its asymptotic and universal properties. While asymptotic properties of MLEs on Euclidean spaces attracted a lot of interest, their studies on manifolds are still insufficient. The present paper aims to give a unified study of the subject. Its contributions are twofold. First it proposes a framework of asymptotic results for MLEs on manifolds: consistency, asymptotic normality and asymptotic efficiency. Second, it extends popular testing problems on manifolds. Some examples are discussed.
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Hajri, H., Said, S., Berthoumieu, Y. (2017). Maximum Likelihood Estimators on Manifolds. In: Nielsen, F., Barbaresco, F. (eds) Geometric Science of Information. GSI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10589. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68445-1_80
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