The fitting is done using a modified version of the Fisher-Scoring
method using analytiscal expressions for log mean and log variance. The
modification is introducted to prevent the algorithm from leaving the
admissible parameter set. It reduced the stepsize to at most have of
distance to the limit of the admissible parameter set.
References
Aitchison, J. (1986) The Statistical Analysis of Compositional
Data Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability. Chapman &
Hall Ltd., London (UK). 416p.