A semi-parametric mixture model in fertility studies

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 453-462

  Zhou, Haibo ^a   Weinberg, Clarice R ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Fertility; Latent variables; Mixing distribution; Moments; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041687235     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(98)00160-8     Document Type: Article

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