What does EM stand for?

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Expectation Maximization (algorithm)

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In the estimation of the structural models, the hyperparameters of the models were estimated by two methods: the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm and the quasi-Newton numerical optimization method.

A state space model-based method of seasonal adjustment