Robust estimation of mixture complexity for count data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4379-4392

  Woo, Mi Ja ^a   Sriram, T N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Consistency; Efficiency; Finite mixtures; Hellinger information criterion; Robustness; Threshold

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON EQUATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CONSISTENCY; FINITE MIXTURES; HELLINGER INFORMATION CRITERION; PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTIONS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 34147148052     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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