The REBMIX algorithm for the multivariate finite mixture estimation

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2022-2034

  Nagode, Marko ^a   Fajdiga, Matija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Finite mixtures; Lognormal distribution; Multivariate data; Normal distribution; Parameter estimation; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT PARAMETERS; FINITE MIXTURES; INFORMATION CRITERION; INFORMATION MEASURES; INITIAL WEIGHTS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTIVARIATE DATA; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; PARAMETRIC FAMILY; PARZEN WINDOWS; RELATIVE DEVIATIONS; WEIBULL;

CODES (SYMBOLS); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM VARIABLES;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79960920597     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610921003725788     Document Type: Article

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