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Solving the 100 Swiss Francs Problem

Computation 2011-09-28 v2 Algebraic Geometry Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Sturmfels offered 100 Swiss Francs in 2005 to a conjecture, which deals with a special case of the maximum likelihood estimation for a latent class model. This paper confirms the conjecture positively.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0809.4627,
  title  = {Solving the 100 Swiss Francs Problem},
  author = {Mingfu Zhu and Guangran Jiang and Shuhong Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4627},
  year   = {2011}
}
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