MediumProbabilitypr-127

Method of Moments for Uniform

Problem

Method of moments estimate of the upper endpoint theta of Uniform(0, theta) from samples. Since the mean is theta / 2:

theta_hat = 2 * sample mean.

Return 0.0 for an empty sample.

Hint

Match the sample mean to the theoretical mean.

case 1

in: [[0,1]]

expected: 1

case 2

in: [[0.5,1.5]]

expected: 2

case 3

in: [[0,0,1,1]]

expected: 1

case 4

in: [[]]

expected: 0

Starter codePython

def method_of_moments_uniform(samples):
    # Your code here
    pass

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