MLEFunctionSolver.java

package gdsc.smlm.fitting;

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 * Genome Damage and Stability Centre
 * University of Sussex, UK
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/**
 * Defines methods to fit a function with coefficients (a) using maximum likelihood estimation.
 */
public interface MLEFunctionSolver extends FunctionSolver
{
	/**
	 * Gets the log likelihood.
	 *
	 * @return the log likelihood
	 */
	public double getLogLikelihood();

	/**
	 * Gets the log likelihood ratio.
	 *
	 * @return the log likelihood ratio
	 */
	public double getLogLikelihoodRatio();

	/**
	 * Gets the probability Q that a value of the log likelihood ratio as poor as the value should occur by chance.
	 *
	 * @return the q-value
	 */
	public double getQ();
}