Alternative EM methods for nonparametric finite mixture models

Biometrika

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 535-550

  Pilla, Ramani S ^a   Lindsay, Bruce G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentation; Complete data; Em algorithm; finite; High dimensional; Maximum likelihood; Missing data; Mixture distribution; Nonparametric mixture; Rate of convergence; Zero elimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001397746     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/88.2.535     Document Type: Article

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