

\subsection{\bf General Maximum Likelihood}
\subsection{\bf Methods---II}

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\item One must issue some obvious warnings.  

\item For instance, $L$ could have several maxima

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\item For instance, this would happen if in earthquake problem you were
still drunk in morning and decided to find $\sqrt{\alpha}$.

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\item{$\bullet$} Then $\sqrt{\alpha}$ would peak at $\pm \sqrt{\alpha^*}$.
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\item Less obviously one should remember that theorems (to come) only
say that maximum likelihood method works for large $n$.

\item Then it is a universally good method.

\item However, for small $n$ it is much more likely to give nonsense
than many other methods.  Thus, $\ldots$
\end{itemize}
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