Breakdown points for maximum likelihood estimators of location-scale mixtures

DOI10.1214/009053604000000571zbMath1047.62063arXivmath/0410073OpenAlexW3103194895WikidataQ60471654 ScholiaQ60471654MaRDI QIDQ1879957

Christian Hennig

Publication date: 15 September 2004

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410073

zbMATH Keywords

robust statisticsnormal mixturesmodel-based cluster analysisnoise componentclassification breakdown pointmixtures of t-distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Point estimation (62F10) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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