Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...

This paper is concerned with the problem of top-K ranking from pairwise comparisons. Given a collection of n items and a few pairwise comparisons across them, one wishes to identify the set of K items ...

Empirical studies of hedonic housing prices show that the spatial maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method is preferable to the traditional ordinary least squares (OLS) hedonic method. Current ...