Estimation of Discrete Distributions with a Class of Simplex Constraints

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 449, 2000, Pages 109-120

  Liu, Chuanhai ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Data augmentation algorithm; Expectation maximization algorithm; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Missing data; Multinomial distribution; Multiple imputation; Parameter expanded expectation maximization algorithm; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442278085     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10473907     Document Type: Article

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