Fitting second-order finite mixture models to data with many censored values using maximum likelihood estimation

Risk Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 261-272

  Burmaster, David E ^a   Wilson, Andrew M ^b  

^a Alceon Corporation   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite mixture models; Maximum likelihood estimation; Radon 222; Second order random variables; Uncertainty; Variability

Indexed keywords

RADON 222;

ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0034083219     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0272-4332.202025     Document Type: Article

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