Paper 1, Section I, H

Statistics
Part IB, 2018

X1,X2,,XnX_{1}, X_{2}, \ldots, X_{n} form a random sample from a distribution whose probability density function is

f(x;θ)={2xθ20xθ0 otherwise f(x ; \theta)=\left\{\begin{array}{cc} \frac{2 x}{\theta^{2}} & 0 \leqslant x \leqslant \theta \\ 0 & \text { otherwise } \end{array}\right.

where the value of the positive parameter θ\theta is unknown. Determine the maximum likelihood estimator of the median of this distribution.