Maximum likelihood estimation of a mixture of normal regressions: Starting values and singularities

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 667-674

  Caudill, Steven B ^a   Acharya, Ram N ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Mixture model; Singularities; Starting values

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000489449     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919808813502     Document Type: Article

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