Table of Contents

1. Model Building. 2. Estimation Methods. 3. Commonly Encountered Problems. 4. Measures of Curvature and Nonlinearity. 5. Statistical Inference. 6. Autocorrelated Errors. 7. Growth Models. 8. Compartmental Models. 9. Multiphase and Spline Regressions. 10. Errors-in-Variables Models. 11. Multiresponse Nonlinear Models. 12. Asymptotic Theory. 13. Unconstrained Optimization. 14. Computational Methods for Nonlinear Least Squares. 15. Software Considerations. Appendix A. Vectors. Appendix B. Differential Geometry. Appendix C. Stochastic Differential Equations. Appendix D. Multiple Linear Regression. Appendix E. Minimization Subject to Linear Constraints. References. Author Index. Subject Index.