An alternative perspective on the mixture estimation problem

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 388-397

  Nagode, M ^a   Fajdiga, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Mixture component parameter estimation; Mixture distributions; Normal mixtures; Predictive distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DECISION THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EM ALGORITHM; MIXTURE COMPONENT PARAMETER ESTIMATION; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; NORMAL MIXTURES; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTION;

MIXTURES;

EID: 29744453124     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.02.005     Document Type: Article

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