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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ib Paper 1 18C i Solution by
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Let and . The likelihood is , so for its unique maximizer is . By invariance of maximum likelihood estimation,For or , the strict parameter interval has no attained likelihood maximum; the usual extended estimate takes the limiting endpoint and gives . Thus the displayed estimator is the conventional extended MLE on those samples, an important boundary qualification. This is the first estimator in estimating Bernoulli variance.
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