Mixture Densities, Maximum Likelihood and the EM Algorithm

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Publication:3321233


DOI10.1137/1026034zbMath0536.62021MaRDI QIDQ3321233

Homer F. Walker, Richard A. Redner

Publication date: 1984

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/1026034


62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

65H10: Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations

65D15: Algorithms for approximation of functions

65C99: Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations


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