Re: Benefit of Bayesian estimation?

On Apr 2, 3:17=A0pm, Luna Moon <lunamoonm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If my model can be estimated using Maximum Likelihood estimation
> (although the likelihood function is quite complicated where only
> numerical evaluations are possible), are there still benefit of
> turning to Bayesian estimation?
>
> Thanks!

Is "Bayesian estimation" the same as Maximum a posteriori (MAP)
estimation, which, of course, is better than ML when prior knowledge
is available?