Research Reports

71/1998 Harmonic Non $\pm$-Holomorphic Tori Into complex Grassmann Manifolds
Caio J. C. Negreiros
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70/1998 Nonconvex Duality and an Invex Continuous-Time Generalization of Gordan's Theorem
Geraldo N. Silva, Adilson J. Vieira-Brandão, Marko A. Rojas-Medar
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69/1998 On Global Weak Solutions of a Nonlinear Evolution Equation in Noncylindrical Domain
J. Ferreira, Marko A. Rojas-Medar
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68/1998 Manifolds with Minimal Radial Curvature Bounded from Below and Big Volume
Valery Marenich
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67/1998 Bayesian Semiparametric Density Estimation via Basis Functions
Ronaldo Dias, Dani Gamerman
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66/1998 Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Spatial Pure Birth Processes
Nancy L. Garcia, Thomas G. Kurtz

We can write the likelihood function for the non-homogeneous pure birth process on a compact set through the method of projection introduced by Kurtz (1989) and studied by Garcia (1995), as the projection of the likelihood function. The fact that the projected likelihood can be interpreted as an expectation suggests that MCMC stochastic approximation could be useful in computing parameter estimates. In this case, we obtain a.s. convergence and distributional results for the convergence of the approximants to the maximum likelihood estimator.


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65/1998 Invariant Measures for Some Spatial Birth and Death Processes
Nancy L. Garcia, Thomas G. Kurtz
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64/1998 Solution of Contact Problems by Feti Domain Decomposition with Natural Coarse Space Projections
Zdenek Dostál, Francisco A. M. Gomes Neto, Sandra A. Santos
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63/1998 Duality-Based Domain Decomposition with Natural Coarse-Space for Variational Inequalities
Zdenek Dostál, Francisco A. M. Gomes Neto, Sandra A. Santos
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62/1998 Radial field equations in the de Sitter universe
Roldão da Rocha Jr., Edmundo Capelas de Oliveira
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