Software sensors (or state observers) are able to provide a continuous estimation of some signals (e.g. concentrations of important culture components, like biomass) which are not measured by hardware sensors. They need a mathematical model of the process and (discrete) hardware measurements of...

The most common mode of inference for order restricted models is likelihood inference. See T. Robertson, F. T. Wright, and R. L. Dykstra (1988, "Order Restricted Statistical Inference," Wiley, New York) for an excellent treatment of inference in such models. In this paper we demonstrate that...

A transformed likelihood approach is suggested to estimate fixed effects dynamic panel data models. Conditions on the data generating process of the exogenous variables are given to get around the issue of ?incidental parameters?. The maximum likelihood (MLE) and minimum distance estimator (MDE)...