Likelihood ratio test for univariate Gaussian mixture

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 325-350

  Garel, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

62A10; Asymptotic distribution; Likelihood ratio test statistic; Mixture of two univariate normals; Primary 62F03; Secondary 62E20

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035402151     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00216-0     Document Type: Article

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