[Lign251] HW3

[Roger Levy]

Rebecca Colavin wrote:
> Roger,
>
> Re question 1: you give MLE = 5/(k-5) for the negative binomial 
> distribution. However, if it took me 9 tosses to get 5 points, MLE = 
> 1.25. Which is not a probability. I hope.

Eep.  That should be 5/k.  I'll fix that on the online HW.  What would I 
do without you Rebecca???

Roger

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