EECS 126 Notes Tyler Zhu

which can be interpreted as finding “which cause best generates the observed symptom.”
Let’s do an inference example in digital communications. Suppose we’re trying to send a
message X across a channel. Unfortunately, the channel is noisy, so the message received is
actually Y . Given this, our goal is to find an estimate for X, X̂, given our observation Y . In
other words, we want to find the MLE and MAP estimate of X given Y .

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