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by gabrielgray
November 24th, 2004, 9:53 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Nonlinear Optimization with Constraints
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Nonlinear Optimization with Constraints

<r>Hello All,Does anyone have any experience in optimizing a nonlinear objective function subject to linear constraints? I am trying to optimize a portfolio in C++ and am looking for algorithms to efficiently find an empirical solution for the Markowitz portfolio. Does anyone know of any very reliab...
by gabrielgray
May 31st, 2004, 4:10 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: MLE’s for the GEV distribution
Replies: 1
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MLE’s for the GEV distribution

<t>Does anyone know the Maximum likelihood estimates for the location, scale, and scope (if GEV) parameters for the Gumbel Type 1( minimum) distribution or the generalized extreme value distribution? I attempted to derive them for the Gumbel, but ended up with 0 as the solution for the scale paramet...