Likelihood inference for mixtures: Geometrical and other constructions of monotone step-length algorithms

DOI10.1093/biomet/76.2.375zbMath0666.62044MaRDI QIDQ3817454

Dankmar Boehning

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/76.2.375

zbMATH Keywords

algorithms; monotonicity; mixing distribution; Newton-Raphson; nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator; area estimation; Numerical comparisons; vertex direction method; vertex exchange method; area-overestimation; curvature of mixture likelihood; family of parametric densities; regula falsi step; second derivative curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

62F10: Point estimation

65D32: Numerical quadrature and cubature formulas

65C99: Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations

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