Method of moments for an endpoint

Problem

A sample 2,4,32,4,3 comes from Uniform⁡(0,θ)\operatorname{Uniform}(0,\theta) with θ>0\theta>0. Find the one-moment method-of-moments estimate of θ\theta.

Reveal answer or reference solution

Since E[X]=θ/2E[X]=\theta/2, match the population mean to the sample mean xˉ=(2+4+3)/3=3\bar x=(2+4+3)/3=3. Thus 3=θ^/23=\hat\theta/2 and

θ^MOM=6\hat\theta_{\mathrm{MOM}}=6
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