9.2 Fitting an Exponential Distribution: You are given a dataset of N non-negative numbers. Write x; for the i'th number. You wish to model this dataset with an exponential distribution, with probability density function P(x|0) = 0e0x. Show the maximum likelihood estimate of is N Σixi

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9.2 Fitting an Exponential Distribution: You are given a dataset of N non-negative numbers. Write x; for the i'th number.
You wish to model this dataset with an exponential distribution, with probability density function P(x|0) = 0e-x. Show the
maximum likelihood estimate of is
N
Σixi
Transcribed Image Text:9.2 Fitting an Exponential Distribution: You are given a dataset of N non-negative numbers. Write x; for the i'th number. You wish to model this dataset with an exponential distribution, with probability density function P(x|0) = 0e-x. Show the maximum likelihood estimate of is N Σixi
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