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How can a probability density value be used for the likelihood calculation?
Consider our parametric model $p_\theta$ for an underlying probabilistic distribution $p_{data}$.
Now, the likelihood of an observation $x$ is generally defined as $L(\theta|x) = p_{\theta}(x)$.
The ...