Robust Estimation in the Normal Mixture Model Based on Robust Clustering

DOI10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00657.xOpenAlexW2027863679MaRDI QIDQ3631473

Agustín Mayo-Iscar, Carlos Matrán, Juan Antonio Cuesta-Albertos

Publication date: 10 June 2009

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00657.x

zbMATH Keywords

asymptoticsEM algorithminfluence functionbreakdown pointidentifiabilitytrimmed \(k\)-meanscensored maximum likelihoodmultivariate normal mixture model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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Uses Software

• R

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