Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within some constant factor of the optimal solution. Develop a basic understanding of how linear and integer ...

An approximation to the marginal likelihood of the ranks of a set of observations is used to analyse data. The observations, after some arbitrary monotone transformation, are assumed to be ...

Econometrica, Vol. 35, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1967), pp. 447-471 (25 pages) ...