A cautionary note on likelihood ratio tests in mixture models

DOI10.1023/A:1004117419204zbMath0960.62025OpenAlexW1986010085MaRDI QIDQ5926205

Karl C. Mosler, Seidel, Wilfried, Manfred Alker

Publication date: 28 February 2001

Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004117419204

zbMATH Keywords

EM algorithmexponential mixture modelsinitial valueslikelihood ratio testmaximum likelihood estimationstopping criteria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Point estimation (62F10)

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