Ensemble Gaussian mixture models for probability density estimation

Computational Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-138

  Glodek, Michael ^a   Schels, Martin ^a   Schwenker, Friedhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Ensemble learning; Finite mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874210641     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-012-0374-5     Document Type: Article

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