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Find the MLE of the rate of a Poisson distribution

Example to illustrate finding the maximum likelihood estimator of the rate of a Poisson distribution.

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Gamma Distribution

The gamma family of distributions is a very special family that has many distributions as a specific case. In this lesson, we begin with the gamma function. We then introduce the gamma…

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Poisson Distribution

The Poisson distribution is different from all of the discrete distributions we have considered up until this point. Instead of counting the number of "successes" or counting the number of…

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