Maximum likelihood estimation of triangular and polygonal distributions

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2016.04.003zbMath1466.62167arXiv1602.03692OpenAlexW2256585930MaRDI QIDQ1659022

Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Hien Duy Nguyen

Publication date: 15 August 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03692

zbMATH Keywords

mixture modelsminorization-maximization algorithmspolygonal distributionstriangular distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08)

Related Items (1)

Some theoretical results regarding the polygonal distribution

Uses Software

• R
• Rcpp

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