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Q28Section A (Section A)28 of 60

Method of moments for a symmetric discrete uniform

Let x1=−2,x2=1x_1=-2,x_2=1 and x3=−1x_3=-1 be the observed values of a random sample of size three from a discrete distribution with the probability mass function

f(x;θ)=P(X=x)={12θ+1,x∈{−θ,−θ+1,…,0,…,θ}, 0,otherwise,f(x;\theta)=P(X=x)=\begin{cases}\dfrac1{2\theta+1}, & x\in\{-\theta,-\theta+1,…,0,…,\theta\},\ 0, & \text{otherwise,}\end{cases}

where θ∈Θ={1,2,…}\theta\in\Theta=\{1,2,…\} is the unknown parameter. Then the method of moment estimate of θ\theta is

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