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- One must issue some obvious warnings.
- For instance, L could have several maxima
- For instance, this would happen if in earthquake problem you were
still drunk in morning and decided to find
.
Then 
would peak at 
.
- Less obviously one should remember that theorems (to come) only
say that maximum likelihood method works for large n.
- Then it is a universally good method.
- However, for small n it is much more likely to give nonsense
than many other methods. Thus,
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu