Reeds, James A. Asymptotic number of roots of Cauchy location likelihood equations. (English) Zbl 0576.62027 Ann. Stat. 13, 775-784 (1985). Summary: The number of local maxima of the Cauchy location likelihood function which are not global maxima is asymptotically Poisson distributed with mean parameter 1/\(\pi\). Cited in 22 Documents MSC: 62E20 Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics 62F12 Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators Keywords:fluctuation inequality; Poisson distribution; number of local maxima of the Cauchy location likelihood function × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI