Recent asymptotic results in testing for mixtures

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5295-5304

  Garel, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Likelihood ratio test; Mixture of distributions; Nonstationary Gaussian process

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; NONSTATIONARY GAUSSIAN PROCESS; SEPARATION CONDITION; TEST STATISTICS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247897125     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.09.033     Document Type: Article

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