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maximum-a-posteriori

A point estimate of parameters θ\theta over dataset DD, corresponding to the maximum of a posterior distribution p(θD)p(\theta \vert D):

θMAP=argmaxp(θD)\theta_\mathrm{MAP} = \mathrm{arg} \mathrm{max} p(\theta \vert D)

i.e. the value(s) of θ\theta that with maximum probability, also referred to as the mode.