Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990s

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1364-1383

  Longford, N T ^a,b   Pittau, M G ^c,d  

^a SNTL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Household income; Kernel estimation; Log normal distribution; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EM ALGORITHMS; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; KERNEL ESTIMATION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MIXTURE MODELS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33750306802     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.02.011     Document Type: Review

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