The expression commonly given in the literature for the inherent error involved in the Newton-Raphson method is incorrect. New criteria are here derived which may be ...
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 271, No. 1346 (Jan. 22, 1963), pp. 324-331 (8 pages) ...
Let be one of the likelihood functions described in the previous subsections. Let . Finding such that is maximized is equivalent to finding the solution to the likelihood equations With as the initial ...