Criteria for global minimum of sum of squares in nonlinear regression

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1739-1753

  Demidenko, Eugene ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Convexity; Curvature; Global minimization; Nonlinear regression; Unimodality; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODAL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONVEXITY; GLOBAL MINIMIZATION; NONLINEAR REGRESSION; UNIMODALITY;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 33750707242     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.06.015     Document Type: Article

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