Talk:Pseudolikelihood

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)