Consistent estimation of mixture complexity

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1281-1296

  James, Lancelot F ^a   Priebe, Carey E ^a   Marchette, David J ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite mixture model; Number of components; Semiparametric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035470890     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1013203454     Document Type: Article

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