Minimum Hellinger distance estimation of mixture proportions

DOI10.1016/0378-3758(95)00006-UzbMath0844.62021MaRDI QIDQ1907667

Paul Whitney, Wayne A. Woodward, Paul W. Eslinger

Publication date: 1 September 1996

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

robustness; simulation; Hellinger distance; minimum distance estimator; relative efficiency; mixing proportion; Cramer-von Mises distance; mixture of two normals; nonparametric sample density; projection model density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

62F10: Point estimation

62F35: Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference)

65C05: Monte Carlo methods

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