International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 27 (2001), Issue 9, Pages 547-553
doi:10.1155/S0161171201005488
On the extrema of integrable functions
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
Received 16 June 2000
Copyright © 2001 Slawomir Dorosiewicz. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper contains the definition of the extremum of integrable functions (e.g., the mode of density function). It seems to be a generalization of well-known standard definition and can be applied in estimation theory to extend the maximum likelihood method.