Inference for multivariate normal mixtures

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1367-1383

  Chen, Jiahua ^a   Tan, Xianming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Multivariate normal mixture; Penalized maximum likelihood estimator; Strong consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249169715     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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