Use of skew-normal and skew-t distributions for mixture modeling of freeway speed data

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2260, 2011, Pages 67-75

  Zou, Yajie ^a   Zhang, Yunlong ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MIXTURES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPONENT DENSITY; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; FINITE MIXTURES; LOG-NORMAL; MIXTURE MODELING; MIXTURE-MODELLING; NORMAL MIXTURE MODELS; SKEW NORMALS; T DISTRIBUTION; T-MIXTURE MODELS;

SPEED;

EID: 84863035686     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2260-08     Document Type: Article

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