A likelihood ratio test for bimodality in two-component mixtures with application to regional income distribution in the EU

DOI10.1007/S10182-008-0057-2MaRDI QIDQ732232zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hajo Holzmann, Sebastian J. Vollmer

Publication date 9 October 2009

Published in AStA. Advances in Statistical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10182-008-0057-2

zbMATH Keywords

likelihood ratio testconvergence analysisbimodalityfinite mixturecross-sectional income distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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