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In some experimental situations it is necessary to estimate a proportion using several groups of cases where the sampling size is a random variable; the maximum likelihood estimator is then the ratio of two statistics, the number of occurrences of the event analyzed (X) and the overall sampling size (M). If the later is of Poisson type with parameter λ, a sequence of M=m Bernouilli trials originates...