Newton-Raphson Method . Let be one of the likelihood functions described in the previous subsections. Let .Finding such that is maximized is equivalent to finding the solution to the likelihood ...

This example solves a nonlinear system of equations by Newton's method. Let the nonlinear system be represented by F(x) = 0 where x is a vector and F is a vector-valued, possibly nonlinear, function.

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