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The best unbiased estimate of a Bernoulli variance

You have independent flips X1,,XnX_1, \dots, X_n from a Bernoulli(p)(p) and want the best unbiased estimate of θ=p(1p)\theta = p(1 - p), the variance of a single flip.

Starting from the crude estimator X1(1X2)X_1(1 - X_2), build the minimum-variance unbiased estimator by conditioning on the sufficient total T=iXiT = \sum_i X_i.

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