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

Slawomir Dorosiewicz

Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland

Received 16 June 2000

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.