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I think you start by working the maximum likelihood estimation formula of a binomial RV. The number of photons captured is (1,000,000) and the probability of the camera catching a photon is p, n (the number of photons total) is what we are looking for. | I think you start by working the maximum likelihood estimation formula of a binomial RV. The number of photons captured is (1,000,000) and the probability of the camera catching a photon is p, n (the number of photons total) is what we are looking for. | ||
| − | <math>\hat n_{ML} = \text{max}_n ( \binom{n}{k} ) | + | <math>\hat n_{ML} = \text{max}_n ( \binom{n}{k} p^{k} (1-p)^{n-k} )</math> |
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I think you start by working the maximum likelihood estimation formula of a binomial RV. The number of photons captured is (1,000,000) and the probability of the camera catching a photon is p, n (the number of photons total) is what we are looking for.
$ \hat n_{ML} = \text{max}_n ( \binom{n}{k} p^{k} (1-p)^{n-k} ) $
