Root selection in normal mixture models

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2012.01.022zbMath1252.62013MaRDI QIDQ693259

Byungtae Seo, Daeyoung Kim

Publication date: 7 December 2012

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2012.01.022

zbMATH Keywords

consistency; singularity; maximum likelihood; normal mixture; spurious local maximizer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F10: Point estimation

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Uses Software

• MixSim

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