TY - BOOK AU - Lange,Kenneth TI - Optimization SN - 9781461458371 U1 - 519.6 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Mathematical optimization N1 - The text provides a rigorous exposition without undue abstraction. Its stress on convexity serves as bridge between linear and nonlinear programming and makes it possible to give a modern exposition of linear programming based on the interior point method rather than the simplex method. The emphasis on statistical applications will be especially appealing to graduate students of statistics and biostatistics ER -