Stephen R. Wassell, Superexponentiation and Fixed Points of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr., 2000), pp. 111-119 ...

A parametrization exists for which the log-likelihood function is a quadratic form in the parameter. The derived structure of these models is utilized to show that they have nice statistical ...

Nonlinear regression uses logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions, exponential functions, power functions, Lorenz curves, Gaussian functions, and other fitting methods.