Accession Number:

ADA026315

Title:

Treatment Contrasts in Paired Comparisons: Convergence of a Basic Iterative Scheme for Estimation.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

FLORIDA STATE UNIV TALLAHASSEE DEPT OF STATISTICS

Personal Author(s):

• El-Helbawy,Abdalla T.
• Bradley,Ralph A.

Report Date:

1975-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

18.0

Abstract:

This paper considers the iterative method. It is proved that, subject to a mild condition, the iterative scheme converges to a solution of the likelihood equations that is unique and yields the maximum of the likelihood function on a parameter space constrained by the condition that certain treatment contrasts are null.

Descriptors:

• *ITERATIONS
• PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
• CONVERGENCE
• STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS
• THEOREMS

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE