Meanings
nounWhittle likelihood (plural Whittle likelihoods)
plural Whittle likelihoods
- computingAn approximation to the likelihood function of a stationary Gaussian time series.
Origin
Named after the mathematician and statistician Peter Whittle, who introduced it in his PhD thesis in 1951.
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