Find a linear approximation to the function \ (f (x)=\sqrt [3] {x+8}\) at \ (a=0\text {.}\) Use this approximation to estimate the numbers \ (\sqrt [3] {7.95}\) and \ (\sqrt [3] {8.1}\text {.}\) ...

Formulate linear and integer programming problems for solving commonly encountered optimization problems. Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within ...

Salomon Minkin, Assessing the Quadratic Approximation to the Log Likelihood Function in Nonnormal Linear Models, Biometrika, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Aug., 1983), pp. 367-372 ...