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Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Explicit Solutions in the Multivariate Normal Estimation Problem for Patterned Means and Covariances
The problem of finding maximum likelihood estimates for patterned means and covariance matrices in multivariate analysis is considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for the existence of explicit solutions and the obtaining of these explicit solutions in one iteration of the scoring equations from any positive definite starting point. …