Model selection criteria for missing-data problems using the em algorithm

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 484, 2008, Pages 1648-1658

  Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a   Zhu, Hongtu ^a   Tang, Niansheng ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; H function; Kullback leibler divergence; Missing data; Q function

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049130850     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000001057     Document Type: Article

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