A likelihood ratio test of a homoscedastic normal mixture against a heteroscedastic normal mixture

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-240

  Lo, Yungtai ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; EM algorithm; Likelihood ratio test; Normal mixture

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449093770     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-008-9052-4     Document Type: Article

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