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Mathematics and Statistics Vol. 4(1), pp. 40 - 45
DOI: 10.13189/ms.2016.040105
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The Constructive Implicit Function Theorem and Proof in Logistic Mixtures
Xiao Liu *
Methods in Empirical Educational Research, TUM School of Education and Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB), TU Munchen, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
ABSTRACT
There is the work by Bridges et al (1999) on the key features of a constructive proof of the implicit function theorem, including some applications to physics and mechanics. For mixtures of logistic distributions such information is lacking, although a special instance of the implicit function theorem prevails therein. The theorem is needed to see that the ridgeline function, which carries information about the topography and critical points of a general logistic mixture problem, is well-defined [2]. In this paper, we express the implicit function theorem and related constructive techniques in their multivariate extension and propose analogs of Bridges and colleagues' results for the multivariate logistic mixture setting. In particular, the techniques such as the inverse of Lagrange's mean value theorem [4] allow to prove that the key concept of a logistic ridgeline function is well-defined in proper vicinities of its arguments.
KEYWORDS
Constructive Implicit Function Theorem, Logistic Mixture, Lagrange Mean Value Theorem, Ridgeline
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[1] Xiao Liu , "The Constructive Implicit Function Theorem and Proof in Logistic Mixtures," Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 40 - 45, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/ms.2016.040105.
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Xiao Liu (2016). The Constructive Implicit Function Theorem and Proof in Logistic Mixtures. Mathematics and Statistics, 4(1), 40 - 45. DOI: 10.13189/ms.2016.040105.