Maximum likelihood

• Input: a set of previous coin tosses

  • X1, …, Xn = {H, T, H, H, H, T, T, H, . . ., H}

• Goal: estimate q

• The likelihood P(X1, …, Xn | q ) = q h (1-q )t

• The maximum likelihood solution is:

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