Penalized minimum‐distance estimates in finite mixture models

DOI10.2307/3315623zbMath0858.62019MaRDI QIDQ4715845

Jiahua Chen, John D. Kalbfleisch

Publication date: 18 November 1996

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315623

zbMATH Keywords

consistency; mixing distribution; finite mixture models; number of mixture components; penalized minimum-distance method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62F10: Point estimation

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