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Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences 
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 92970, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/JAMDS/2006/92970

Constrained estimation and the theorem of Kuhn-Tucker

Ori Davidov

Department of Statistics, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel

Received 11 July 2004; Accepted 11 January 2005

Abstract

We explore several important, and well-known, statistical models in which the estimation procedure leads naturally to a constrained optimization problem which is readily solved using the theorem of Kuhn-Tucker.