Maximum likelihood inference for mixtures of skew Student-t-normal distributions through practical EM-type algorithms

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 287-299

  Ho, Hsiu J ^a   Pyne, Saumyadipta ^b   Lin, Tsung I ^c,d  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ECM algorithm; ECME algorithm; Flow cytometry; Outliers; ST mixtures; STN mixtures

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955163090     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-010-9225-9     Document Type: Article

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