Solving the 100 Swiss Francs Problem

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Sturmfels offered 100 Swiss Francs in 2005 to a conjecture, which deals with a special case of the maximum likelihood estimation for a latent class model. This paper confirms the conjecture positively.

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The paper addresses the “100 Swiss Francs problem” originally posed by Bernd Sturmfels in 2005. The problem concerns a specific conjecture about the maximum‑likelihood estimator (MLE) for a latent‑class model that is the mixture of two independent product distributions on three binary variables. Formally, the model is
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Solving the 100 Swiss Francs Problem

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