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

DOI10.1093/biomet/76.2.375zbMath0666.62044OpenAlexW1987003427MaRDI 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

algorithmsmonotonicitymixing distributionNewton-Raphsonnonparametric maximum likelihood estimatorarea estimationNumerical comparisonsvertex direction methodvertex exchange methodarea-overestimationcurvature of mixture likelihoodfamily of parametric densitiesregula falsi stepsecond derivative curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Point estimation (62F10) Numerical quadrature and cubature formulas (65D32) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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