Intro to operators, probabilities, and linear model -- Lp-approximable sequences of vectors -- Convergence of linear and quadratic forms -- Regressions with slowly varying regressors -- Spatial models -- Convergence almost everywhere -- Nonlinear models -- Tools for vector autoregressions

"Mathematical Programming Models for Agriculture, Environmental, and Resource Economics provides a comprehensive overview of mathematical programming models and their applications to real world and important problems confronting agricultural, environmental, and resource economists. Unlike most...

Some Basic Concepts -- Vectors and Matrices -- Square Matrices and Determinants -- Inverse Matrix -- Systems of Linear Equations -- Linear Spaces -- Euclidean Spaces -- Linear Transformations -- Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues -- Linear Model of Production in a Classical Setting -- Linear...

This book on constrained optimization is novel in that it fuses these themes: - use examples to introduce general ideas; - engage the student in spreadsheet computation; - survey the uses of constrained optimization;. - investigate game theory and nonlinear optimization, - link the subject to...