Correction: 2:39 I said likelihood=0.03 for mu=30, but mu=28 is in the equation. Support StatQuest by buying my book The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning or a Study Guide or Merch!!! statquest.org/statquest-store/
This channel, along with 3blue1Brown make me feel like a mathematician who is actually discovering this techniques for the first time in a logical way, rather than just handed to me through some obscure formulas that one just take for granted, because most academics forget about the importance of visual intuition.
I'm a teaching assistant in stats at both UCL and Birkbeck (University of London), and I can say, hands down, I have rarely ever seen teaching as phenomenal as this in stats and maths. I wish I had access to your videos when I was learning, and struggled with all these topics (with teachers who didn't have anywhere near as as much commanding knowledge, and tended to over-complicate things), and not only, now, learn from you how to teach effectively (and obviously, still, a lot of maths & stats :). You don't begin to appreciate how much in-depth understanding a teacher has, to make stats&maths so seemingly simple and quick to swallow, until you start teaching these things yourself. Bravo! (This is one of my few comments on anything online ever)
@@haleemamisal2432 Unless you end up in a good group with either a supervisor who is still active in getting their hands dirty with experiments and etc., or strong postdoc(s) in your group (edit: who are obliged/willing to help), PhD studentships can be like walking in a pitch-dark forest with your hands tied behind your back whilst having overdosed on hay-fever medication. It's ridiculous! I would take a strong and/or enthusiastic group/leader in a shitty uni over a shitty group/supervisor at a Russel-group/famous-department/uni any day.
I am amazed how you teach these concepts and make them easy to understand. It is the first time I fully understand the standard deviation. Having this 'Eureka' moment was only possible because of your effort and your skills! You are really good! Thank you so much!
I was reluctant to start this video, seeing its length. I thought it will be some other university guy explaining it mundanely. I am glad I clicked. Even more glad that I was wrong.
Truth is even after years of working extensively with data, it is not only always informative to go back studying the most basic concepts possible in Statistics but also a real relaxing moments to listen to you teaching. It takes my head off overcomplicated matters, cleanses my reasoning and lets me walk out of this 20-minutes coffee break feeling more refreshed than any caffeine intake. Thank you !
I am truly staggered of how well-made this explanation video is. A lot of textbooks don't bother to explain their derivations and proofs, as they consider them to be "self-explanatory". Thank you a lot Mr. StatQuest, I learned more through your videos than in any statistics lecture! Keep up the good work!
You are a true hero!! Especially now with online classes and everything. Thanks soo much! This lesson was super intimidating to me, but learning from this video has made me realize it's not that hard at all. Good teaching makes miles of difference. Thank you so much!!
Hands down thank you! This video with its visual explanation probably just saves me from enormous self-doubt and dropping out of my degree. I wish profs would put in the time to give you such illustration to help you understand, rather than pages of words and functions that confuse you even further.
Ahhhhhhh I’m so mad! I found this channel while studying for my stats FINAL and it’s so good. My life would have been so much easier this semester if I had found this earlier! You explain things so intuitively so I always understand what is really happening instead of just watching numbers move around completely confused. You’re doing a great thing man, wish I could have been able to use your channel more haha.
I should have paid £12750 for this video rather than for my university! I have been reading slides and watching the lecture recordings from my university for over a week, but I couldn't understand. I understood everything clearly in this 20-minute video in one go. RESPECT!!!
This explained what I tried to learn in our uni course for 3 weeks in just 20 minutes. If the teacher just showed the class this video there wouldn't be any confusion anymore
What an incredible way to show how the formulas for the mean and standard deviation of a normal distribution are found! Videos like these make me enamored by statistics all over again
Man, I really really hope from the bottom of my heart that you teach actual classes somewhere IRL too. You could have been the the difference between me failing out of university because of math and stat and finishing it with flying colors. Too bad I only found you now.
I'm a current graduate student in a Machine Learning class, and I just wanted to take the time to say thank you from the bottom of my heart! It's online (due to the pandemic) and my professor's videos are honestly hit or miss (and his MLE video for me was definitely a miss....) The example REALLY helped me wrap my head around what we are doing. Thank you so so so so much... definitely donating (or buying some merch lol) as soon as I'm able!
What a hero. It takes a lot of time to do things in such detail that even the worst could still understand everything without having to ponder at why a step is valid ! GG
That is absolutely amazing : I'm from France so English isn't my native language, though I still understand it better than with my french teacher lessons! Hundred thanks
I had been wishing for a broken down video of the process of logging the likelihood function for a while and I just found this. Thank you! This is awesome and one of the most helpful things ive seen all year
Words can't describe how awesome this video is !!!! I literally stood up and clapped at the end of this video. Request all that benefit professionally from StatQuest's videos to kindly support the channel via means listed in the description. God I love this channel !!!!
Classic. I have seldom seen a teacher taking his students/audience from the base of the hill to the top in such a smooth fashion! Excellent. P.S. I can only pity on those who disliked this video, better get admitted into kindergarten :)
I love this comment!!! Thank you. I love the analogy - some teachers just yell down from the top of the hill, other teachers have heard what the top of the hill is like, but have never been there themselves, so they just repeat what they have heard, and other teachers, like sherpas, know the way and are willing to do the trek. Also, I think of the "likes" and "dislikes" as a lesson about the world. The "dislikes" tell me that no matter how I try, I can't help everyone. However, the "likes" tell me that if I try really hard, I can help a lot of people - and that's what motivates me.
Hardly comment on RUclips videos but this one really deserves a big thank you. This material is pure gold! You made me understand concept's as never before.
Jesus H-Bar, I wish I had math this clear and well explained when I was taking my stats class. So many profs just skipping lines and jumping ahead in their proofs, expecting us to fill in the blanks. Now here I am in a robotics course looking at maximum likelihood estimation and this video is giving me the lesson I wish I had years ago. A+, kudos, cookies, high fives... you take it all!
I'm 2nd year Engineer stumbling through this stuff all semester, the lectures my professors have recorded just make me feel like a total idiot and really fuel the imposter syndrome... So thankyou so much for explaining so well! It's not only teaching me the stuff but it's given me a bit of confidence back!
Watching videos like that make me wonder why my math teachers were so bad at explaining even the most basic stuff like (a+b)^2 and went on by saying: it works because i say so. Not surprised so many people suck at math and most of them have to rely on online videos to explain stuff. Thank you!
That was amazing. I did not see the surprise twist ending if mean and standard deviation coming till you got there. I was a math major and always avoided stats because my classmates said the theorem proofs were so hard. Your videos illuminate those dark corners.
this was AMAZING! i am currently taking machine learning course, and the teacher gave us these formulas to memorize without any derivations. i was looking for something exactly like this :) thank you!
I involuntarily watched this video with my mouth wide open because I couldn't believe that within 5 minutes into the video I understood what three 3 lectures+script couldn't explain ;) Keep up the good work, Josh
I just can't thank you enough. After college I'll definitely donate to your channel, with my first salary ! I don't understand why my college prof can't explain it simply like this.
I am not a beginner to all this, but still even now sometimes the very basics become muddled. This video has been so helpful! I am definitely gonna be revisiting your channel in the future.
I really felt like you were telling me a bedtime story here, and rewinding was like asking you to go over the good bits. The ending of and the mean, equals the mean, and the standard deviation equals the standard deviation, was a pretty good ending.
I wish I could like your videos a million times. I barely comment on youtube but I wanted to thank you josh for such incredible resources you are providing to us. You are saving lives out there :)
You know, how do I feel right now after taking this lesson? I feel like I had a very bad stomach after lunch and just gotten out of the toilet. It feels so calming and relaxing.
OMG , my feeling just like riding in a roller coaster. when you bring up the formula with derivative, my head start bumping. but when you explain the slope = 0 till the end, it just like riding down the slope and make it so excited. LOL thank you josh
Correction:
2:39 I said likelihood=0.03 for mu=30, but mu=28 is in the equation.
Support StatQuest by buying my book The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning or a Study Guide or Merch!!! statquest.org/statquest-store/
I think another error at 2:13 : shouldn't it say "likelihood of the curve given these data" rather than "likelihood of the data given this curve"?
Thank so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻
error bammmmm
I think the 32 is not right at 13:47. How it was 32 then became x ?
@@fahadfardan x_1 was defined as 32 at 5:52.
This channel, along with 3blue1Brown make me feel like a mathematician who is actually discovering this techniques for the first time in a logical way, rather than just handed to me through some obscure formulas that one just take for granted, because most academics forget about the importance of visual intuition.
I'm glad the video is helpful. :)
statistically, academics cannot teach 99% of the time. Certainly a very skewed distribution
Amen.@@ianstats97
Some heroes do not wear capes......You are the real MVP!
Thank you! :)
Absolutely man. AMAZING VIDEO. There is so much effort and you have done a great job explaining a concept I was struggling to understand.
Totally agreed. Josh is the BEST EVER!
I'm a teaching assistant in stats at both UCL and Birkbeck (University of London), and I can say, hands down, I have rarely ever seen teaching as phenomenal as this in stats and maths. I wish I had access to your videos when I was learning, and struggled with all these topics (with teachers who didn't have anywhere near as as much commanding knowledge, and tended to over-complicate things), and not only, now, learn from you how to teach effectively (and obviously, still, a lot of maths & stats :). You don't begin to appreciate how much in-depth understanding a teacher has, to make stats&maths so seemingly simple and quick to swallow, until you start teaching these things yourself. Bravo! (This is one of my few comments on anything online ever)
Thank you so much!!! :)
Thank You for acknowledging Josh's absolute awesomeness
lol im a phd candidate at imperial and have no one teaching me :( . What is it with Russel Group
@@haleemamisal2432 Unless you end up in a good group with either a supervisor who is still active in getting their hands dirty with experiments and etc., or strong postdoc(s) in your group (edit: who are obliged/willing to help), PhD studentships can be like walking in a pitch-dark forest with your hands tied behind your back whilst having overdosed on hay-fever medication. It's ridiculous! I would take a strong and/or enthusiastic group/leader in a shitty uni over a shitty group/supervisor at a Russel-group/famous-department/uni any day.
@@statquest Great videos. Thanks a lot. What you really do to create these animations and graphs.
Give this man some Nobel Prize already. Peace, Economics even Literature will do. This sort of genius shouldn't go unrewarded.
Thanks! :)
And if you can, please support by donating!
Dont forget music! 😂
@@deepanshhh Amen
True for assisting nobel with BAM BAM .. BAM !
Joshua you are a hero! Truly a man of the people. Bless you kind sir
Hooray!!! Thank you! :)
OMG again this is the best MLE explain I've seen ever in my life.
Thank you! :)
I am amazed how you teach these concepts and make them easy to understand. It is the first time I fully understand the standard deviation. Having this 'Eureka' moment was only possible because of your effort and your skills! You are really good! Thank you so much!
I was reluctant to start this video, seeing its length. I thought it will be some other university guy explaining it mundanely. I am glad I clicked. Even more glad that I was wrong.
BAM!!! :)
wtf man
how are you not president yet
I thought the U.S always choose the craziest to be president.
Truth is even after years of working extensively with data, it is not only always informative to go back studying the most basic concepts possible in Statistics but also a real relaxing moments to listen to you teaching. It takes my head off overcomplicated matters, cleanses my reasoning and lets me walk out of this 20-minutes coffee break feeling more refreshed than any caffeine intake. Thank you !
Hooray!!! Thank you very much! :)
One of the best descriptions of Maximum Likelihood ... in the UNIVERSE
Watching a step-by-step differentiation of the Gaussian PDF has been on my to-do list for a long time. Thank you so much for this!
Thanks!
If professors in universities explain like that the world will be a better place.......really thank you so much you are awesome
Wow, thank you!
Holy this videos must take lots of effort, but it is so worth it.
If conveying a subject in a clear manner is the main goal, this dude is a 10/10
Thank you! :)
I am truly staggered of how well-made this explanation video is. A lot of textbooks don't bother to explain their derivations and proofs, as they consider them to be "self-explanatory". Thank you a lot Mr. StatQuest, I learned more through your videos than in any statistics lecture! Keep up the good work!
You are a true hero!! Especially now with online classes and everything. Thanks soo much! This lesson was super intimidating to me, but learning from this video has made me realize it's not that hard at all. Good teaching makes miles of difference. Thank you so much!!
Wow, thank you!
Hands down thank you! This video with its visual explanation probably just saves me from enormous self-doubt and dropping out of my degree. I wish profs would put in the time to give you such illustration to help you understand, rather than pages of words and functions that confuse you even further.
Thanks!
I spent 8 grand to learn ML in college and yet didn't truly understand what MLE is. Learned it for FREE on StatQuest. You Rock
Thanks! :)
This is the most intutive yet thorough explaination of MLE I have ever seen. Thank You so much Dr. Starmer.
Thank you very much! :)
Ahhhhhhh I’m so mad! I found this channel while studying for my stats FINAL and it’s so good. My life would have been so much easier this semester if I had found this earlier!
You explain things so intuitively so I always understand what is really happening instead of just watching numbers move around completely confused. You’re doing a great thing man, wish I could have been able to use your channel more haha.
Thanks so much and good luck! :)
I should have paid £12750 for this video rather than for my university! I have been reading slides and watching the lecture recordings from my university for over a week, but I couldn't understand. I understood everything clearly in this 20-minute video in one go. RESPECT!!!
Thank you!
This explained what I tried to learn in our uni course for 3 weeks in just 20 minutes. If the teacher just showed the class this video there wouldn't be any confusion anymore
bam!
What an incredible way to show how the formulas for the mean and standard deviation of a normal distribution are found! Videos like these make me enamored by statistics all over again
Thanks!
Man, I really really hope from the bottom of my heart that you teach actual classes somewhere IRL too. You could have been the the difference between me failing out of university because of math and stat and finishing it with flying colors. Too bad I only found you now.
Thanks!
You just explained what my teacher couldn't in three lectures, I wholeheartedly thank you, keep it up
Thank you! :)
I'm a current graduate student in a Machine Learning class, and I just wanted to take the time to say thank you from the bottom of my heart! It's online (due to the pandemic) and my professor's videos are honestly hit or miss (and his MLE video for me was definitely a miss....) The example REALLY helped me wrap my head around what we are doing. Thank you so so so so much... definitely donating (or buying some merch lol) as soon as I'm able!
Thank you very much! I'm glad my videos are helpful. :)
I rarely leave comments, but this was just so greatly explained that I had to express my appreciation for the video creator. Well done!
Thank you!
Thank you Josh for this amazing StatQuest. It is people like you who keep learning to be very fascinating.
I appreciate that!
By far the Greatest explanation on RUclips. No debates.
Thank you very much!
What a good video. I took me 7 year to understand it properly. U kicked out of the park.
Awesome! Thanks! :)
What a hero. It takes a lot of time to do things in such detail that even the worst could still understand everything without having to ponder at why a step is valid !
GG
Thank you! :)
This Channel keeps getting better and better.
Thank you! :)
Your ability to explain this so well gives me goosebumps.
Ha! Thank you. :)
These videos on MLE are really wonderfully thought out and presented - very helpful in getting an intuitive handle on this important topic.
Thank you! :)
I wish my university classes were as clear as your explanations. Thank you!
Glad you like them!
Man, you just explained my whole lecture topic clearly and fast. Thank you!
Wow! That's awesome! Thank you! :)
This is the best/clearest explanation of MLE I have ever heard.
Thank you!
That is absolutely amazing : I'm from France so English isn't my native language, though I still understand it better than with my french teacher lessons! Hundred thanks
Wow, thank you!
I had been wishing for a broken down video of the process of logging the likelihood function for a while and I just found this. Thank you! This is awesome and one of the most helpful things ive seen all year
Wow! Thank you! :)
Dear StatQuest, Great explanation. Please do video on MCMC metro polis Hastings and Gibbs sampling.
Struggling with the Pattern Recognition course for a while.
You, sir, are the true hero!
Thank you! :)
Every time when I have a new stats related course, I always use statQuest for a quick review. Cannot recommend more!
Awesome!!! :)
this is by far the cleanest explanation on this topic EVER
Thanks! :)
you give me clarity about likelihood function thank u sir
Words can't describe how awesome this video is !!!! I literally stood up and clapped at the end of this video. Request all that benefit professionally from StatQuest's videos to kindly support the channel via means listed in the description. God I love this channel !!!!
Thank you so much 😀!
Classic. I have seldom seen a teacher taking his students/audience from the base of the hill to the top in such a smooth fashion! Excellent. P.S. I can only pity on those who disliked this video, better get admitted into kindergarten :)
I love this comment!!! Thank you. I love the analogy - some teachers just yell down from the top of the hill, other teachers have heard what the top of the hill is like, but have never been there themselves, so they just repeat what they have heard, and other teachers, like sherpas, know the way and are willing to do the trek.
Also, I think of the "likes" and "dislikes" as a lesson about the world. The "dislikes" tell me that no matter how I try, I can't help everyone. However, the "likes" tell me that if I try really hard, I can help a lot of people - and that's what motivates me.
@@statquest Keep up the good work ✌️. Would you please also consider posting a similar video on cramer rao lower bound (CRLB)?
This is one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen on youtube. Thank you for what you do
Thank you!
Triple likes!!! Can't wait to see videos on more advanced concepts
Thank you!
Hardly comment on RUclips videos but this one really deserves a big thank you. This material is pure gold! You made me understand concept's as never before.
Thank you! :)
10 / 10 presentation skills :D. Love it.
Thank you! :)
man u earned my respect i almost got cleared all my doubts in this covid semester since cant ask doubts to prof lively
Thanks!
how can one make things so easy....you are great.
Thank you!
Probably the best explanation of the Maximum Likelihood estimator I've ever seen. Well done.
Thanks! :)
at 2:42 you said likelihood=0.03 for miu=30 but miu=28 which was used in the equation.
Yep, that's a typo.
Jesus H-Bar, I wish I had math this clear and well explained when I was taking my stats class. So many profs just skipping lines and jumping ahead in their proofs, expecting us to fill in the blanks. Now here I am in a robotics course looking at maximum likelihood estimation and this video is giving me the lesson I wish I had years ago. A+, kudos, cookies, high fives... you take it all!
Thank you very much! :)
I can't believe we just did all that and ended with like "2 = 2."
I know! It's a little bit of a bummer. But now you know why we can use the mean and standard deviation.
@@statquest nahh not a bummer is just kinda funny
I did well on my data science test yesterday thanks to this
@@undine8750 Congratulations! TRIPLE BAM! :)
I'm 2nd year Engineer stumbling through this stuff all semester, the lectures my professors have recorded just make me feel like a total idiot and really fuel the imposter syndrome... So thankyou so much for explaining so well! It's not only teaching me the stuff but it's given me a bit of confidence back!
Thanks! I'm glad the videos are helpful.
Excellent teaching
Thank you!!! :)
After reading several pages and books, this is the first time I really understand that this is. Thanks alot
BAM! :)
the *CHAIN RULE* dramatic atmosphere intensifies
BAM! :)
Watching videos like that make me wonder why my math teachers were so bad at explaining even the most basic stuff like (a+b)^2 and went on by saying: it works because i say so.
Not surprised so many people suck at math and most of them have to rely on online videos to explain stuff.
Thank you!
I'm happy this helped!
The absolute pleasure of watching this video can only be attained by sticking to the playback speed of 1.0
Modern day true compliment in education
2x is the way to go kid
@@malharjajoo7393 But then you spend less time enjoying a StatQuest video, and that's no fun. You can't 2x something this beautiful.
I have never understand MLE this clear until now in my life. Thanks for excellent video. Subscribed and Liked!
Awesome, thank you!
You are the best.
Thank you! :)
That was amazing. I did not see the surprise twist ending if mean and standard deviation coming till you got there. I was a math major and always avoided stats because my classmates said the theorem proofs were so hard. Your videos illuminate those dark corners.
Thank you very much! :)
Bruh you're hilarious. You must be popular in Stats Land!
Don't believe there are thumbs DOWN for this video!!! Super fan for this series!!! HERO!!!
Can you talk about the EM algorithm? Thanks.
Yes!!! I'll try to get to it as soon as I can.
You're the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now
everytime you went BAM!! I couldn't help laughing!!
:)
this was AMAZING! i am currently taking machine learning course, and the teacher gave us these formulas to memorize without any derivations. i was looking for something exactly like this :) thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
You should sit on the Throne of maths.... I BEND THE KNEE :')
:)
Josh Starmer is the super hero that every field of knowledge should have
BAM! :)
"I double checked" Hahaha
:)
you seriously have no clue how much this video helped me bro, plus i love how you put in some humor so it doesn't become boring. you're amazing man :)
Thank you very much! I'm glad the video was helpful. :)
triple BAM!!!
Hooray! :)
I involuntarily watched this video with my mouth wide open because I couldn't believe that within 5 minutes into the video I understood what three 3 lectures+script couldn't explain ;) Keep up the good work, Josh
Thank you! :)
"chain rule" has a different meaning than what it is used for in this video.
I can clearly see your dedicated efforts to create such amazing content which is explained in depth. Hats off to your commitment. Thank you so much.😀
Thank you!
holy god. one of the few times i had cry from the beauty of math. thank you
Thank you!!! :)
I just can't thank you enough. After college I'll definitely donate to your channel, with my first salary ! I don't understand why my college prof can't explain it simply like this.
Thank you very much! I'm glad my videos are helpful! :)
I am not a beginner to all this, but still even now sometimes the very basics become muddled. This video has been so helpful! I am definitely gonna be revisiting your channel in the future.
Hooray! I'm glad my video is helpful. :)
Josh Stamer, definitely you are the BEST!!!
Thank you!
I really felt like you were telling me a bedtime story here, and rewinding was like asking you to go over the good bits. The ending of and the mean, equals the mean, and the standard deviation equals the standard deviation, was a pretty good ending.
Hooray! :)
seriously amazing
you are the best teacher in the world
no words to explain how much helpful it was
thank you so much!
Thank you! :)
I have seen many of your videos, and I can say that you made statistic looks sooooo easy. Thanks a lot.
You're welcome! I'm glad you like the videos. :)
I wish I could like your videos a million times. I barely comment on youtube but I wanted to thank you josh for such incredible resources you are providing to us. You are saving lives out there :)
Thank you! :)
You know, how do I feel right now after taking this lesson? I feel like I had a very bad stomach after lunch and just gotten out of the toilet. It feels so calming and relaxing.
dang
OMG , my feeling just like riding in a roller coaster. when you bring up the formula with derivative, my head start bumping. but when you explain the slope = 0 till the end, it just like riding down the slope and make it so excited. LOL thank you josh
Hooray! :)
Never seen such a detailed and conceptual explanation. Thank You Josh
Glad you enjoyed it!
One of my favourite videos of the whole internet!! ♥
StatQuest is simply amazing.
Thank you so much!!! :)
Thank you so much for this video! I'm preparing my Statistic Exam and this is gold
Greetings from Italy
Good luck! :)
Josh, you are an absolute legend! Your videos make everything so easy to understand, and my kids and I love your funny musical introductions as well.
Thank you very much! :)
The whole vedio I was just waiting for that TRIPPLE BAM ... man what a genius way to present knowledge
Thanks!
This video just made me pass my Statistical Inference unit....Thank you so much!!!!
TRIPLE BAM!!! Congratulations!!!!! :)
wow. Never seen someone explaning maximum likelihood to look this ease. Hats off :)
Thanks a lot 😊
My hero... thanks for taking the time to work through a whole example, was utterly confused by this concept.
Hooray!!! I'm glad the video was helpful. :)
This is the cooooooooooooooolest one by far. My love for josh is escalating exponentially.
bam!
This is truly a fantastic explanation of maximum likelihood for the normal distribution. Great job!
Wow, thank you!