Testing for the number of components in a mixture of normal distributions using moment estimators

DOI10.1016/0167-9473(94)90144-9zbMath0937.62557OpenAlexW2071232593WikidataQ126781801 ScholiaQ126781801MaRDI QIDQ1361504

W. David Furman, Bruce G. Lindsay

Publication date: 31 August 1997

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-9473(94)90144-9

zbMATH Keywords

moment estimatorsmixture of normalsmoment matriceslikelihood procedurestests for number of components

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03)

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