Re: MLE for shifted exponential distribution

From: Jack Tomsky <jtomsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:25:35 EDT

thnx fr ur replies
k, i came up with, mle for @ = min(Xi)

can u pls help me in reducing it to unbiased
estimator

thnx

I'll give you one final hint. Since min(Xi) also has an exponential distribution, write out the mean for this exponential distribution. Then subtract out the bias from min(Xi).

Jack
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- Re: MLE for shifted exponential distribution
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