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unknown quantity such that it maximizes the probability of observing this random sample. Following is how you formulate this problem using the maximum likelihood: Construct the likelihood function L(θ|x) = f(x₁,x₂, . . .,xₙ;θ) Use the property of i.i.d random samples to break the joint PDF to the