[Lign251] HW3

[Rebecca Colavin]

Ummm, and anyone feel free to answer this before Roger resorts to 
violence... does this mean that the MLE for the negative binomial dist and 
for the binomial distr. are both r/n?

Rebecca



  On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Roger Levy wrote:

> 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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