*Department of Mathematical Statistics, The Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam, on grant B62–165 of the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.)
Abstract:
Abstract An informal discussion is given on performing an unconstrained maximization or solving non-linear equations of statistics by iterative methods with the quadratic termination property. It is shown that if a miximized function, e.g. likelihood, is asymptotically quadratic, then for asymptotically efficient inference finitely many iterations are needed.