[R] likelyhood maximization problem with polr

[Peng, C]

If you can prove that the Fisher information matrix is positive definite, the
resulting estimate is MLE. Otherwise you can only claim it a local MLE (the
Hessian matrix at the estimate is negative definite). 





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