Analytic calculations for the EM algorithm for multivariate skew-t mixture models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1169-1174

  Vrbik, I ^a   McNicholas, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Em algorithm; Mixture models; Multivariate skew t distribution; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859813429     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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