“…It appears as a core structure in diverse applications. These applications include the estimation of input-output tables (Bachem and Korte, 1981;Harrigan and Buchanan, 1984;Miller and Blair, 1985;Kaneko, 1988;Antonello, 1990) and inter-regional trade flows in regional science (Batten, 1982;Byron et al, 1993), balancing of social/national accounts in economics (Byron, 1978;Van der Ploeg, 1982Zenios, Drud, and Mulvey, 1989;Nagurney, Kim, and Robinson, 1990), estimating interregional migration in demography (Plane, 1982), the analysis of voting patterns in political science (Johnson, Hay, and Taylor, 1982), the treatment of census data and estimation of contingency tables in statistics (Friedlander, 1961), the estimation of transition probabilities in stochastic modeling (Theil and Rey, 1966), and the projection of traffic within telecommunication and transportation networks (Florian, 1986;Klincewicz, 1989). A comprehensive survey can be found in Schneider and Zenios (1990).…”