Convergence and consistency of Newton’s algorithm for estimating mixing distribution

Frontiers in Statistics: Dedicated to Peter John Bickel in Honor of his 65th Birthday

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 429-443

  Ghosh, Jayanta K ^a,b   Tokdar, Surya T ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

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DOI: 10.1142/9781860948886_0019     Document Type: Chapter

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