Robust estimation of mixture complexity

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 476, 2006, Pages 1475-1486

  Woo, Mi Ja ^a   Sriram, T N ^b  

^a National Institute of Statistical Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive density estimate; Finite mixtures; Hellinger information criterion; Rescaled t distribution; Symmetric departures

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846071710     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214506000000555     Document Type: Article

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