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Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Normal Mixtures

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At the beginning, the research on estimation of the parameters in finite mixture models was more focused in the normal components case.

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  1. Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs Mansfield, CT, USA

    Víctor Hugo Lachos Dávila

  2. Department of Statistics, Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

    Celso Rômulo Barbosa Cabral

  3. Department of Statistics, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Camila Borelli Zeller

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Lachos Dávila, V.H., Cabral, C.R.B., Zeller, C.B. (2018). Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Normal Mixtures. In: Finite Mixture of Skewed Distributions. SpringerBriefs in Statistics(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98029-4_2

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