Preface -- Chapter 1. Basic Notions and Definitions -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Basic Notions of Analysis and Linear Algebra -- 1.3. Basic Notions and Properties of Optimization Problems -- Chapter 2. Elements of Convex Analysis. Theorems of the Alternative for Linear Systems. Tangent Cones --...

Conditional distribution functions are important statistical objects for the analysis of a wide class of problems in econometrics and statistics. We propose flexible Gaussian representations for conditional distribution functions and give a concave likelihood formulation for their global...

Conditional distribution functions are important statistical objects for the analysis of a wide class of problems in econometrics and statistics. We propose flexible Gaussian representations for conditional distribution functions and give a concave likelihood formulation for their global...