Penalized minimum-distance estimates in finite mixture models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-175

  Chen, Jiahua ^a   Kalbfleisch, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consistency; Finite mixture model; Minimum distance method; Mixing distribution; Number of components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030304448     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315623     Document Type: Article

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