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Q24Section ST (Statistics (Q11–Q65))24 of 65

MLE of a two-sided power density

Let X1,X2,…,XnX_1,X_2,…,X_n be a random sample of size nn (≥2\ge 2) from a population having probability density function f(x;θ)={θ(2x)θ−1if 0<x≤12 θ(2−2x)θ−1if 12<x≤1 0otherwise,f(x;\theta) = \begin{cases} \theta(2x)^{\theta-1} & \text{if } 0 < x \le \frac12 \ \theta(2-2x)^{\theta-1} & \text{if } \frac12 < x \le 1 \ 0 & \text{otherwise,} \end{cases} where θ>0\theta > 0 is an unknown parameter. Then which one of the following is a maximum likelihood estimator of θ\theta?

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