Constrained nonparametric maximum-likelihood estimation for mixture models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 601-617

  Susko, E ^a   Kalbfleisch, J D ^a   Chen, J ^a  

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Author keywords

Constrained estimation; ISDM; Mixture model; Nonparametric; Statistical computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032216916     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315720     Document Type: Article

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