A broadly applicable algorithm for computing maximum likelihood estimates from incomplete data is presented at various levels of generality. Theory showing the monotone behaviour of the likelihood and ...

Patrick Royston, Remark AS R94: A Remark on Algorithm AS 181: The W-test for Normality, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 44, No. 4 (1995), pp. 547-551 ...