This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article is based on an idea proposed by C. W. Carroll for transforming a mathematical programming problem into a sequence of ...

There are three SAS procedures that enable you to do maximum likelihood estimation of parameters in an arbitrary model with a likelihood function that you define: PROC MODEL, PROC NLP, and PROC IML.

Studies linear and nonlinear programming, the simplex method, duality, sensitivity, transportation and network flow problems, some constrained and unconstrained optimization theory, and the ...