Packages for Estimating Finite Mixtures: A Review

American Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 194-205

  Haughton, Dominique ^a  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Finite mixtures; Maximum likelihood; Weibull regressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744432967     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1997.10473961     Document Type: Article

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