Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the Multinomial Distribution Using Geometric Progamming |
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| Authors: | J. Richard Alldredge David W. Armstrong |
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| Affiliation: | Denver Mining Research Center, U.S. Bureau of Mines , Denver , Colorado |
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| Abstract: | The problem of obtaining maximum likelihood estimates for the multinomial distribution is considered. Maximum likelihood estimation is applied to the particular problem of estimating overlap sizes created by interlocking sampling frames. In this paper, geometric programming is discusseda as a method of solving the likelihood function and is applied to a practical example of estimating overlap sizes. |
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| Keywords: | Estimation Multinomial Distribution Maximum Likelihood Estimation Overlapping Sampling Frames Geometric Programming |
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