Surrogate geometric programming estimates of restricted multinomial proportions
作者:
William P. Cooke,
期刊:
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
(Taylor Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 3
页码: 291-305
ISSN:0361-0918
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1080/03610918308812320
出版商: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
关键词: coal blending;maximum-likelihood estimation;multinomial distribution;surrogate constraints;zero degrees of difficulty
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Maximum-likelihood estimation of multinomial proportions subject to linear inequality or equality constraints is considered. A demonstration that surrogate constraints yield a zero-degree-of-difficulty geometric programming problem is given. A general solution in terms of surrogate multipliers and the unconstrained estimates is exhibited. A computational algorithm is presented and used to solve an example problem pertaining to coal deliveries received by a power plant.
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