Teaching CSIR NET Mock Test Series Mathematical Science Statistics & Exploratory Data Analysis Sampling Distributions
Consider a distribution with probability mass function
\(\rm f(x| θ)=\left\{\begin{matrix}\frac{1-θ}{2}, &if\ x = 0\\\ \frac{1}{2}&if\ x=1\\\ \frac{θ}{2}&if\ x=2\\\ 0&otherwise\end{matrix}\right.\)
where θ ∈ (0, 1) is an unknown parameter. In a random sample of size 100 from the above distribution, the observed counts of 0,1 and 2 are 20, 30 and 50 respectively. Then, the maximum likelihood estimate of θ based on the observed data is
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1
2
5/7
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1/2
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2/7