A constrained robust proposal for mixture modeling avoiding spurious solutions

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 27-43

  Garcia Escudero L A ^a   Gordaliza, A ^a   Mayo Iscar, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Constraints; Eigenvalues restrictions; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mixture models; Robustness; Trimming

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRIMMING;

CONSTRAINTS; EIGENVALUES; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; MAXIMIZATION PROBLEM; MIXTURE MODEL; OUTLYING OBSERVATION; SPURIOUS SOLUTIONS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84894530645     PISSN: 18625347     EISSN: 18625355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11634-013-0153-3     Document Type: Article

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