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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=Bayesian_statistics">Bayesian statistics</a>, the <b>maximum a posteriori</b> (<b>MAP</b>) <b>estimate</b> of an unknown quantity is the <a href="page.php?w=mode_%28statistics%29">mode</a> of the <a href="page.php?w=posterior_distribution">posterior</a> <a href="page.php?w=Probability_density_function">density</a>. The MAP can be used to obtain a <a href="page.php?w=point_estimation">point estimate</a> of an unobserved quantity on the basis of empirical data. It is closely related to the method of <a href="page.php?w=maximum_likelihood">maximum likelihood</a></p><p>
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