Inference for normal mixtures in mean and variance

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 443-465

  Chen, Jiahua ^a   Tan, Xianming ^b   Zhang, Runchu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bernstein inequality; Invariant estimation; Mixture of normal distributions; Penalized maximum likelihood; Strong consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849122669     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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