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The knee-jerk mapping

Peter G. Doyle, Jim Reeds

math.PRarXiv:math/0606068

Abstract

We claim to give the definitive theory of what we call the `knee-jerk mapping', which is the basis for a class of optimization algorithms introduced by Baum, and promoted by Dempster, Laird, and Rubin under the name `EM algorithm'.

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