A simple suboptimum estimator of prior probability in mixtures (Corresp.)
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Vol. 29 (4) , 619-621
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1983.1056701
Abstract
A simple relative frequency type estimator of the prior probability in a mixture of two known density functions is presented. Examples are given demonstrating the ease of design and implementation of this estimator structure.Keywords
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