Divergence-based estimation and testing of statistical models of classification

DOI10.1006/jmva.1995.1060zbMath0844.62007OpenAlexW2051361630MaRDI QIDQ1898412

Igor Vajda, Leandro Pardo, Domingo Morales, M. Luisa Menendez

Publication date: 1 September 1996

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jmva.1995.1060

zbMATH Keywords

classificationmaximum likelihoodclustered datacategorical data analysisphi divergenceminimum divergence estimationminimum divergence testingoptimality of testing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Point estimation (62F10) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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