Asymptotic normality in mixtures of power series distributions

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-131

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a   Patilea, Valentin ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Identifiability; Mixture models; Non parametric maximum likelihood; Power series distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644415437     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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