Editing Likelihood function (section)

===Marginal likelihood===
{{Main|Marginal likelihood}}
Sometimes we can remove the nuisance parameters by considering a likelihood based on only part of the information in the data, for example by using the set of ranks rather than the numerical values. Another example occurs in linear [[mixed model]]s, where considering a likelihood for the residuals only after fitting the fixed effects leads to [[residual maximum likelihood]] estimation of the variance components.