Large sample distribution of the likelihood ratio test for normal mixtures

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-133

  Chen, Hanfeng ^a   Chen, Jiahua ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convergence of stochastic process; Finite mixture model; Kolmogorov bound; Primary 62F03; Secondary 62F05; Uniform convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037702641     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00171-1     Document Type: Article

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