The estimate shows that the p-version gives results which are not worse than those obtained by the conventional finite element method (called the h-version, in which h represents the maximum diameter ...

The most resounding example of this was the use of the FE method by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) during the research and studies into the collapse of the World Trade ...

Likelihood functions from finite mixture models have many unusual features. Maximum likelihood (ML) estimates may behave poorly over repeated samples, and the abnormal shape of the likelihood often ...