Diet models based on goal programming (GP) are valuable tools in designing diets that comply with nutritional, palatability and cost constraints. Results derived from GP models are usually very ...

For some time it has been well known among specialists in mathematical programming that the statistical problem of fitting a linear multiple regression with the criterion of minimizing the sum of ...

An estimation procedure for stochastic processes based on the minimization of a sum of squared deviations about conditional expectations is developed. Strong consistency, asymptotic joint normality ...