"Whittle likelihood" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Whittle likelihoods [plural]
Etymology: Named after the mathematician and statistician Peter Whittle, who introduced it in his PhD thesis in 1951. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Whittle likelihood (plural Whittle likelihoods)
  1. (signal processing) An approximation to the likelihood function of a stationary Gaussian time series. Wikipedia link: Whittle likelihood Categories (topical): Signal processing

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