Question

I am beginner in Mathematica, and can only understand basic command so far. I need help in writing the maximum likelihood estimation function. I want to find the MLE of a Binomial distribution, with 2 parameters: n and p. I know that it is a quite simple one and actually I can get the answer manually, which I did. But I need to know how to write this in Mathematica to get the same answer. Thank you!

Answer 1

data = RandomVariate[BinomialDistribution[2, .3], 1000]; 
EstimatedDistribution[data, BinomialDistribution[n, p],
                      ParameterEstimator -> {"MaximumLikelihood"}]

(* -> BinomialDistribution[2, 0.3155] *)