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

DOI10.1016/j.stamet.2013.10.002zbMath1486.62063OpenAlexW2027890012MaRDI QIDQ1731201

Andrew M. Raim, Nagaraj K. Neerchal, Minglei Liu, 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

maximum likelihoodFisher scoringFisher information matrixmultinomialfinite mixture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Uses Software

• SAS
• MixMoGenD
• SAS/STAT

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