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- Let's do the same thing for maximum likelihood method.

- where
are probability of our
events.
- Assume
are normalized
as in
Equation (25).
- This normalization is crucial but even when it does
not seem to be true as in our subtle modifications in Section 4.3 with
the ``generalized'' maximum likelihood method, one can easily modify
the analysis, and show it is still valid.
- We get in normalized
case,

- with

Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu