1. Introduction. - 2. Imposing the constraints. - 3. Selecting the objective functional: conjugate duality. - 4. Choosing a truncation point for (c*c)k. - 5. Solving for Solving for $$\vec{\theta}{\rm^{(n)}: n=1}$$. - 6. Solving for $$\vec{\theta}{\rm^{(n)}: n > 1}$$. - 7. Obtaining an initial estimate $$\hat{\vec{\theta}}^{(\rm n)}$$ of $$\vec{\theta}^{(\rm n)}$$. - 8. Numerical asymptotics. - 9. Assessing the sample efficiency of $$\hat{\vec{\rm b}}^{(\rm n)}$$ and $$\hat{\vec{\theta}}^{(\rm n)}$$. - 10. The numerical experiment: preliminaries. - 11. The numerical experiment: results. - 12. Tables and graphs. - Fig. 1 The Sunspot Cycle: 16101976. - Fig. 2 The Autocorrelogram of the untransformed data. - Fig. 3 The Autocorrelogram of the transformed data. - Table 1 Summary analysis for fn*. - Table 2 Summary analysis for fn. - Table 3 Order determination of fn* on the Akaike (1977) criterion. - Table 4 Summary analysis of fn*. - Table 5 Asymptotic analysis of Zn (11 ? n ? 20). - Figs. 423 Simultaneous plot of fn* (k = 1). - 13. Conclusion. - Appendix A: Comparison of Steffensen(1) simplified N-R(2) unmodified N-R(3) and Laguerre(4) update strategies for solving A(x) = r for x given r = 0(0. 01)0. 93. - Appendix C: ANSI 77 FORTRAN source code listing (MAIN). - Appendix D: ANSI 77 FORTRAN source code listing (FOLLOW-UP). - Appendix H: ANSI 77 FORTRAN source code (Korovkin). Language: English