Gentleman & Geyer (1994) discuss the analysis of interval censored data and present results based on standard convex optimisation theory. Here, this problem is viewed from the perspective of a mixing ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), pp. 379-388 (10 pages) In this paper a sequential search method for finding the global maximum of an objective function is proposed. The ...

Given any expression of the form \(a\cos x + b\sin x\) it is better to rewrite it into one of the forms \(k\cos (x \pm \alpha )\) or \(k\sin (x \pm \alpha )\) before answering the question. From this ...