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- So usually people warn you by saying:
- ``If distribution of
not Gaussian, then do not
simply quote maximum and standard deviation, rather plot the
likelihood.''
- Unfortunately, this is dubious, because for small n,
nobody has proved any theorems and
philosophy
important
- while for large n, theorems are proven on the relevance of the
likelihood method
but they also prove L is Gaussian!
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu