Minimum Hellinger distance estimation for Poisson mixtures

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-103

  Karlis, Dimitris ^a   Xekalaki, Evdokia ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Efficiency; Environmental data; Minimum distance; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

MINIMUM HELLINGER DISTANCE (MHD); POISSON MIXTURES;

DATA REDUCTION;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; POISSON RATIO;

EID: 0032576467     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(98)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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