German Tank Problem
Discrete Mathematics
Level
2
An airline has numbered their planes \(1,2,\ldots,N,\) and you observe the following 3 planes, which are randomly sampled from the \(N\) planes:
What is the maximum likelihood estimate for \(N?\) In other words, what value of \(N\) would, according to conditional probability, make your observation most likely?
by
Eli Ross