Webscraping.pro
Recently we encountered a new powerful scraping service called Web Scraper IDE [of Bright Data]. The life-test and thorough drill-in are coming soon. Yet now we want to highlight its main features that has badly (in positive sense, strongly) impressed us.
“Out of the 15 bank customers to whom the manager offered to connect autopayments, four agreed. Service activation is a binary feature that can be described by the Bernoulli distribution.”.
Let’s find the maximum likelihood estimate for the parameter p out of such a sample.
1) Likelihood function:
L(Xn, p) = ∏ p[Xi=1]*(1−p)[Xi=0] = p^4 * (1-p)^11
2) We find the maximum likelihood estimate for the parameter p.
We logarithm L(Xn, p) and get the following:
ln(p^4 * (1-p)^11) = 4*ln(p) + 11*ln(1-p)
3) Now we take its derivative and equate it to zero to find p.
[4ln(p) + 11ln(1-p)]` = 4 (ln(p))` + 11 (ln(1-p))` = 4/p + 11/(1-p) * (-1) = 0
Following: 4/p = 11/(1-p) => 4(1-p) = 11p => 15p = 4 => p = 4/15 =~ 0.26667.
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