Parameter estimation for finite mixture distributions

DOI10.1016/0898-1221(88)90119-8MaRDI QIDQ1105299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John W. Davenport, James C. Bezdek, Richard J. Hathaway

Publication date 1988

Published in Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0898-1221(88)90119-8

zbMATH Keywords

constrained maximum-likelihood algorithmfuzzy c-means clustering algorithmmixture of normal distributionsnumerical comparison of estimation procedures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

Review text

We compare (numerically) two approaches to the estimation of the parameters of the component densities in a univariate mixture of normal distributions. One approach is based on a constrained maximum-likelihood algorithm; the other on the fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm.

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