Binomial mixtures: Geometric estimation of the mixing distribution

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1706-1721

  Wood, G R ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Binomial; Cyclic polytope; Geometry; Kullback Leibler distance; Least squares; Maximum likelihood; Mixing distribution; Mixture; Moment curve; Nearest point; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033233740     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1017939148     Document Type: Article

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