Semiparametric estimation of a two-component mixture model

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1204-1232

  Bordes, Laurent ^a   Mottelet, Stéphane ^a   Vandekerkhove, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

Author keywords

Consistency; Contrast estimators; Identifiability; Mixing operator; Rate of convergence; Semiparametric; Two component mixture model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747158755     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000000353     Document Type: Article

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