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- Now, as we are assuming p to be an even function of z, i.e.,
symmetric about the mean, we write the above as
- where
is an odd function of its argument.
- For the case of Gaussian p,
-
is just 
and Equation (37) is
- which gives the arithmetic mean as the maximum likelihood
estimate of the mean.
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu