A new test for the presence of a normal mixture distribution based on the posterior Bayes factor

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-125

  Aitkin, Murray ^a,b   Finch, Steve ^c   Mendell, Nancy ^c   Thode, Henry ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification likelihood; Likelihood ratio test; Normal mixture; Posterior Bayes factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344437476     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00162522     Document Type: Article

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