 Invariance property of maximum likelihood estimation (source code)

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= Invariance property of maximum likelihood estimation

If $\widehat\theta$ maximizes a likelihood and the target parameter is $\eta=g(\theta)$, a maximum-likelihood estimate of $\eta$ is $g(\widehat\theta)$, with the usual interpretation when $g$ is not one-to-one.

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