

\subsection{\bf The Likelihood Maximizes the}
\subsection{\bf Quivering Rod---II}

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\item The last term is a constant independent of $\alpha$, and

\item so viewed as a function of $\alpha$, $L$ is just a Gaussian which
maximizes at $\alpha = \frac{1}{n} {\displaystyle \sum^n_{i=1}} x_i$
and has width $\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$.

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