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A scientist observes a Poisson process with parameter λ\lambda, but can only record binary data indicating whether at least one event occurred in each unit of time (i.e., they observe Yi=I(Xi>0)Y_i = I(X_i > 0)). In nn independent intervals, the event occurred kk times. What is the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of λ\lambda?