The Maximum Likelihood Degree of Mixtures of Independence Models

DOI10.1137/16M1088843zbMath1377.62082arXiv1505.06536MaRDI QIDQ5349294

Botong Wang, Jose Israel Rodriguez

Publication date: 24 August 2017

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06536

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationEuler characteristicsmixture modelsalgebraic statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Applications of commutative algebra (e.g., to statistics, control theory, optimization, etc.) (13P25)

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