Let Y1,Y2, …… Yn be a random sample from the distribution f(y) = θxθ-1 where 0 < x < 1 and 0 < θ < ∞. Show that the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for θ is
Let Y1 , Y2 , . . . , Yn denote a random sample from the uniform distribution on the interval (θ, θ+1). Let a. Show that both ? ̂1 and ? ̂2 are unbiased estimators of θ.
Let Y1<Y2<...<Yn be the order statistics of a random sample of size n from the distribution having p.d.f f(x) = e-y , 0<y<, zero elsewhere. Answer the following questions. (a) decide whether Z1 = Y2 and Z2=Y4-Y2 are stochastically independent or not. (hint. first find the joint p.d.f. of Y2 and Y4) (b) show that Z1 = nY1, Z2= (n-1)(Y2-Y1), Z3=(n-2)(Y3-Y2), ...., Zn=Yn-Yn-1 are stocahstically independent and that each Zi has the exponential distribution.(hint use change of variable technique)
Let Y1, Y2, ..., Yn denote a random sample from an exponential distribution with mean θ. Find the rejection region for the likelihood ratio test of H0 : θ = 2 versus Ha : θ ≠ 2 with α = 0.09 and n = 14. Rejection region =
Consider a random sample (X1, Y1),(X2, Y2), . . . ,(Xn, Yn) where Y | X = x is modeled by a N(β0 + βx, σ2 ) distribution, where β0, β1 and σ 2 are unknown. (a) Prove that the mle of β1 is an unbiased estimator of β1. (b) Prove that the mle of β0 is an unbiased estimator of β0.
Let Yı, Y2, ...,Yn be an iid sample from a population distribution described by the pdf fy(y|0) = (@+ 1) yº, o<y<1 for 0> - -1. (a) Find the MOM estimator of 0. (b) Find the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of 0. (c) Find the MLE of the population mean E(Y) = 0 +1 0 + 2 You do not need to prove that the above is true. Just find its MLE.
QUESTION 7 Let Y, Y2, ....Yn denote a random sample of size n from a population whose density is given by (a) Find an estimator for θ by the maximum likelihood method. (b) Find the maximum likelihood estimator for E( Y4).
5. Consider a random sample Y1, . . . , Yn from a distribution with pdf f(y|θ) = 1 θ 2 xe−x/θ , 0 < x < ∞. Calculate the ML estimator of θ. 6. Consider the pdf g(y|α) = c(1 + αy2 ), −1 < y < 1. (a) Show that g(y|α) is a pdf when c = 3 6 + 2α . (b) Calculate E(Y ) and E(Y 2 ). Referencing your calculations, explain why M1 can’t be...
QUESTION8 Let Y,,Y2, ..., Yn denote a random sample of size n from a population whose density is given by (a) Find the maximum likelihood estimator of θ given α is known. (b) Is the maximum likelihood estimator unbiased? (c) is a consistent estimator of θ? (d) Compute the Cramer-Rao lower bound for V(). Interpret the result. (e) Find the maximum likelihood estimator of α given θ is known.
QUESTION 3 Let Y1, Y2, ..., Yn denote a random sample of size n from a population whose density is given by (Parcto distribution). Consider the estimator β-Yu)-min(n, Y, where β is unknown (a) Derive the bias of the estimator β. (b) Derive the mean square error of B. , Yn).
7. Let Y1, ...,Yn be a random sample from the population with pdf f(316) = he=1/0, y>0 (a) Find the MOM estimator for 0. (b) Find the MLE of 0. (c) Find the MLE of P(Y < 2). (d) Find the MLE of the median of the distribution.