MLE Makes the Data Most Probable

7 heads in 10 flips: the Bernoulli likelihood peaks at p̂ = 0.7. ℓ(0.7) = −6.109 beats ℓ(0.5) = −6.931; dropping the tails (p^n) wrongly returns 1.

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