Example: Binomial Experiment(Statistics 101)

• When tossed, it can land in one of two positions: Head or Tail

• We denote by ? the (unknown) probability P(H).

Estimation task:

• Given a sequence of toss samples x[1], x[2], …, x[M] we want to estimate the probabilities P(H)= ? and P(T) = 1 - ?

Head

Tail

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