Strong identifiability and optimal minimax rates for finite mixture estimation

DOI10.1214/17-AOS1641zbMath1420.62215OpenAlexW4321001852MaRDI QIDQ1991679

Jonas Kahn, Philippe Heinrich

Publication date: 30 October 2018

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1536307235

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergenceWasserstein metriclocal asymptotic normalitymixing distributionsuperefficiencymixture modelmaximum likelihood estimatestrong identifiabilityconvergence of experimentspointwise rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

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