Lagrange Multiplier Method
- Method of finding a local maximum subject to constraints.
- Maximize and subject to (constraint)
- Assuming that and have continuous partial derivatives.
- Lagrange function:
- Applications
- [MLE](Maximum Likelihood Estimation) parameter of multinomial distribution
- Examples
- MLE for the categorical distribution
- Refer: Probabilistic Machine Learning - An Introduction, 4.2.4
- MLE for the categorical distribution