An analysis of ill-posed production problems using maximum entropy

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 124-138

  Paris, Quirino ^a   Howitt, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesky factorization; Flexible functional forms; Ill posed problems; Maximum entropy; Positive mathematical programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001429452     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3180275     Document Type: Article

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