The Newton–Raphson method — the iterative algorithm that finds a function’s root by successive linear approximation — is, stripped of its notation, a theory of convergence. And convergence is ...
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 ...
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