Consistency of the penalized MLE for two-parameter gamma mixture models

DOI10.1007/s11425-016-0125-0zbMath1360.62092MaRDI QIDQ525882

XianMing Tan, ShaoTing Li, Jiahua Chen

Publication date: 5 May 2017

Published in: Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-016-0125-0

zbMATH Keywords

identifiability; penalized likelihood; Stirling formula; finite mixture; constrained MLE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

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Uses Software

• GSM

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