Convergence of iterative maximum-likelihood estimators

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Let VV be the finite set of agents, let Xv(t)X_v(t) denote the estimator held by agent vVv\in V at iteration tt, and let X()X(\infty) be a common limiting estimator. Convergence conjecture. There exists a random variable X()X(\infty) such that

X()  v:  Xv(t)X().\exists X(\infty)\;\forall v:\;X_v(t)\to X(\infty).

The preceding variance and covariance identities show that all agents become asymptotically identical in variance, but convergence of the estimators themselves is not established here.

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Elchanan Mossel and Omer Tamuz, “Iterative Maximum Likelihood on Networks”, arXiv:0904.4903 (2009).

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