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Homework A
• Suppose we have an unfair coin and wish to estimate the outcome (head or
tail) from observing a series of coin tosses.
• q = probability of tossing a head.
• After observing n coin tosses, we note that:
D x(1) ,
, x( n)
where x(i) is 0 or 1, indicating head (0) or tail (1). We also note that in
our data set, h trials are head.
• Show that: qML
h
n
Homework B
• For a random variable x that was described by an exponential distribution
we have:
1
1
p x(i ) a exp x(i )
a0
a
a
n
1
aML
x (i )
n i 1
• Show that this estimator is unbiased. Hint: You need to show that the
expected value of the random variable under this distribution is the ML
estimate.