Fitting a mixture distribution to a variable subject to heteroscedastic measurement errors

Computational Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-17

  Thamerus, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Finite mixture distribution; Heteroscedastic measurement errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037596802     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001800300129     Document Type: Article

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