Mixture Density Estimation Based on Maximum Likelihood and Sequential Test Statistics

Neural Processing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-76

  Vlassis, N A ^a,b   Papakonstantinou, G ^a   Tsanakas, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixtures; Nonstationary distributions; Number of mixing components; PNN; Semi parametric estimation; Stationary distributions; Test statistics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

MIXTURE DENSITY ESTIMATION; SEQUENTIAL TEST STATISTICS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 0033076407     PISSN: 13704621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018624029058     Document Type: Article

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