The stability of Newton's methods for function minimization, or variants of it such as quasi-Newton or Newton-Raphson methods, can be improved by modifying the acceleration matrix by adding a scalar ...

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 ...

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 ...