Asymptotic distribution and local power of the log-likelihood ratio test for mixtures: Bounded and unbounded cases

Bernoulli

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 775-799

  Azaïs, Jean Marc ^a   Gassiat, Élisabeth ^b   Mercadier, Cécile ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Contiguity; Extreme values; Local power; Log likelihood ratio test; Mixture models; Number of components

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448977702     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1161614946     Document Type: Article

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