Estimating the number of components in a finite mixture model: the special case of homogeneity

DOI10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00173-1MaRDI QIDQ951804zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Peter Schlattmann

Publication date 4 November 2008

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

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionlikelihood ratio testfinite mixture modelsdisease mappingnonparametric bootstrapsimulation studies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Point estimation (62F10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

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Uses Software

• DismapWin
• bootstrap

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