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Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

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Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.1: Measures Of Center

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Let X1, X2, ..., Xn be a random sample from a distribution with a pdf
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;x > 0
f (x) =
0, elsewhere.
(a) Find the method of moments estimator for a.
(b) Find the MLE for a.
(c) Find the MLE for the variance of the distribution.

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