ON　CONVERGENCE　AND　RATE　OF　CONVERGENCE　OF　ALGORITHMS　IN　THE　MOVER－STAYER　MODEL

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The convergence and rate of convergence of an iterative method of Wang and Scott[1] for obtaining maximum likelihood estimates for contingency tables derived from a mover-stayer model are discussed.