Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in a nonparametric mixture model

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1118-1133

  Karunamuni, R J ^a   Wu, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Finite mixture models; Hellinger distance; Kernel estimator; Robust estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949100369     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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