An Iterative Procedure for Obtaining Maximum-Likelihood Estimates of the Parameters for a Mixture of Normal Distributions

DOI10.1137/0135032zbMath0443.65112OpenAlexW2135268685MaRDI QIDQ3886828

B. Charles jun. Peters, Homer F. Walker

Publication date: 1978

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0135032

zbMATH Keywords

comparison convergence iterative procedure maximum-likelihood estimates mixture of normal distributions optimal local convergence steepest-ascent type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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