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or dropping terms independent of
:
where
is counter in which
j
'th event arrived and
is relative probability of landing in
k
'th counter.
Note
is normalized
.
This is the discrete maximum likelihood method:
we have
N
observations:
each has only
M
possible outcomes
and the
is product of probabilities---normalized properly.
Geoffrey Fox
,
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
at Syracuse University,
gcf@npac.syr.edu
:
is counter in which j'th event arrived and 
is relative probability of landing in
k'th counter.
is normalized 
.
we have N observations:
each has only M possible outcomes
is
product of probabilities---normalized properly.