Talk:Pseudolikelihood

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Should it be written $\Pr(X=x)\approx$ the pseudolikelihood rather than $\Pr(X=x)=$ the pseudolikelihood?

As now written, this article doesn't make sense.

Often a probability density depends on a scalar or vector parameter θ in such a way that

x\mapsto f(x\mid \theta )\,dx

is a different probability distribution for each different value of θ. In such cases the likelihood function is a function of θ with x fixed:

L(\theta )=f(x\mid \theta ).\,

This article says a pseudolikelihood is supposed to approximate the likelihood function. But the function identified as the pseudolikelihood is a function of x, not of θ.

As written, this article makes no sense. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:58, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]