Semiparametric mixtures of generalized exponential families

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 535-551

  Charnigo, Richard ^a   Pilla, Ramani S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite identifiability; Information criterion; Laplace transform; Mixing distribution; Nesting structure; Structural parameter; Two parameter exponential families

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547998995     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2006.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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