[R] Meaning of Positive LogLikelihood

Erik Iverson iverson at biostat.wisc.edu
Fri Jul 11 17:00:44 CEST 2008


Gundala Viswanath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am I trying to learn mixture models of gamma distributions.
> However sometime the calculation of the log-likelihood it gives is
> positive instead of the usual negative, in particular when
> the number of samples are small.
> 
> My questions are:
> 1. Is it possible that a loglikelihood is positive?

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