A quick procedure for model selection in the case of mixture of normal densities

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5635-5643

  Isaia, A Durio E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Minimum integrated square error; Monte Carlo significance test; Multivariate Gaussian mixtures; Simulation studies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

MINIMUM INTEGRATED SQUARE ERRORS; MONTE CARLO SIGNIFICANCE TESTS; MULTIVARIATE GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; SIMULATION STUDIES;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34547176881     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.05.023     Document Type: Article

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