In a variety of problems involving models from genetics, latent-class analysis, and missing data, I apply a log-linear model to an indirectly observed frequency table. Current algorithms for ...

In this paper a family of functional iterations is introduced. One member of this family is the Newton-Raphson method and another member, obtained from a generalization of Steffensen's method to a ...

There are several optimization techniques available in PROC NLMIXED. You can choose a particular optimizer with the TECH=name option in the PROC NLMIXED statement. No algorithm for optimizing general ...

Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of a statistical model involves maximizing the likelihood or, equivalently, the log likelihood with respect to the parameters. The parameter values at ...