Likelihood ratio tests of the number of components in a normal mixture with unequal variances

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-235

  Lo, Yungtai ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap test; Likelihood ratio test; Normal mixture; Posterior predictive checks

Indexed keywords

EID: 14044250133     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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