Philatelic mixtures and multimodal densities

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 83, Issue 404, 1988, Pages 941-953

  Izenman, Alan J ^a   Sommer, Charles J ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Likelihood ratio test; Maximum likelihood; Mixtures of distributions; Modes; Nonparametric density estimation; Postage stamps; Quality control; Tests for multimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006380024     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1988.10478683     Document Type: Article

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