Abstract
This paper investigates the L1-norm of the MLE of monotone and unimodal densities.In the monotonecase, it is shown that converges in distribution to the sum of anormal r.v and the maxima of a Brownian bridge over the flat ranges of the monotone density. In the unimodal case, itis shown that, if an -consistent mode estimate is used to construct the plug-in MLE of the unimodal density with unknown mode, the L1-norm of the plug-in MLE is equal to that of the MLE of theunimoral density with known mode up to the order . Therefore, the limiting distributions of the L1-norms of these two estimates are the same.

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