On the method of approximate Fisher scoring for finite mixtures of multinomials

DOI10.1016/J.STAMET.2013.10.002MaRDI QIDQ1731201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew M. Raim, Minglei Liu, Nagaraj Neerchal, Jorge G. Morel

Publication date 13 March 2019

Published in Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stamet.2013.10.002

zbMATH Keywords

finite mixtureFisher information matrixFisher scoringmaximum likelihoodmultinomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Point estimation (62F10) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30)

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Uses Software

• SAS/STAT
• SAS
• MixMoGenD

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