This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Let X:p × n be a matrix of random real variates such that the column vectors of X are independently and identically distributed as ...

This paper presents a new method for minimizing a positive definite quadratic function subject to linear inequality constraints. It is based on a continuous deformation of the quadratic, starting from ...

There are three groups of optimization techniques available in PROC NLP. A particular optimizer can be selected with the TECH=name option in the PROC NLP statement. Since no single optimization ...