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The Likelihood Maximizes the Quivering Rod---III
So as
we say that maximum likelihood estimate of
is
and its standard deviation is
.
Note that whatever a priori
you put in,
the shape of
is essentially independent of
as
and we get a Gaussian peaked at
riding on top of the constant value
.
Geoffrey Fox
,
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
at Syracuse University,
gcf@npac.syr.edu
is 
.
you put in,
the shape of 
is essentially
independent of 
as 
and we get a Gaussian peaked at 
riding on
top of the constant value 
.