Testing the order of a finite mixture

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 105, Issue 491, 2010, Pages 1084-1092

  Li, Pengfei ^a   Chen, Jiahua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chi squared limiting distribution; Compactness; EM test; Likelihood ratio test; Modified likelihood ratio test

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649409369     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2010.tm09032     Document Type: Article

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