Introduction to Optimization Methods and their Application in Statistics (Chapman & Hall Statistics Text Series)
By B. Everitt.
Description
Optimization techniques are used to find the values of a set of parameters which maximize or minimize some objective function of interest. Such methods have become of great importance in statistics for estimation, model fitting, etc. This text attempts to give a brief introduction to optimization methods and their use in several important areas of statistics. It does not pretend to provide either a complete treatment of optimization techniques or a comprehensive review of their application in statistics; such a review would, of course, require a volume several orders of magnitude larger tha...
ISBN(s)
0412272105, 9780412272103
