Numerical Aspects in Estimating the Parameters of a Mixture of Normal Distributions
Journal of Computational and Graphical StatisticsPublished 1 December 1992
Michael Evans, Irwin Guttman, Ingram Olkin
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This work presents some simulation procedures that address difficulties that arise naturally in robustness analyses when distributional assumptions are not met and with the analysis of contaminated data.
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Abstract Mixtures of normal distributions arise naturally in robustness analyses when distributional assumptions are not met and with the analysis of contaminated data. Typically these analyses involve substantial computational problems. We present some simulation procedures that address these difficulties.
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