A comparison of some estimators of the mixture proportion of mixed normal distributions

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-217

  Pardo, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Minimum distance estimator; Relative efficiency; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIMULATION;

ESTIMATORS;

SAMPLING;

MIXING; MODELING;

EID: 0043232689     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(97)00124-6     Document Type: Article

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