AlliedSignal Federal Manufacturing and Technologies/Kansas City (FM and T/KC) produces nonnuclear components for nuclear weapons. The company has operated the plant for the US Department of Energy (DOE) since 1949. Throughout the history of the plant, procedures have been written to reflect the...

Estimation of ([alpha], [beta])' in the doubly geometric model Zij = [alpha]Zi - 1, j + [beta]Zi, j - 1 - [alpha][beta]Zi - 1, j - 1 + [var epsilon] cases (i) [alpha] = 1,|[beta]| 1 and (ii) [alpha] = [beta] = 1. In each case, the "one step Gauss-Newton estimator" is shown, when properly...

The periodogram ordinate is used to define an asymptotic test for the testing problem H0:[alpha]=1 vs. HA:[alpha]1 under appropriate assumptions on the model Yt=[alpha]Yt-1+[epsilon]t-[theta][epsilon]t-1, where [theta] is near one. A drift term is also included in the model. An independent and...

Sufficient conditions are given to ensure the existence of a sequence of strongly consistent estimators of an unknown parameter for a nonlinear regression model. The parameter space includes all separable metric spaces but is not assumed to be compact.