An important characterization of a numerical method for first order ODE's is the region of absolute stability. If all eigenvalues of the linear problem y' = Ay are inside this region, the numerical ...
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 35, No. 2 (June 2008), pp. 335-353 (19 pages) The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular approach for obtaining maximum likelihood estimates in ...