Difficulties in Drawing Inferences With Finite-Mixture Models
- 1 May 2004
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 58 (2) , 152-158
- https://doi.org/10.1198/0003130043286
Abstract
Likelihood functions from finite mixture models have many unusual features. Maximum likelihood (ML) estimates may behave poorly over repeated samples, and the abnormal shape of the likelihood often...Keywords
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