Title

COMPARING DIFFERENT METHODS
FOR ESTIMATING PARAMETERS OF MIXTURE
OF TWO CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTIONS

Authors

P. Nasiri, A.A. Azarian
Department of Statistics
University of Payam Noor
19395-4697, Tehran, I.R. IRAN

Abstract

At this paper, at first we introduce mixture of two chi-square distributions and then find it’s parameters from method of moments and maximum likelihood estimators. EM algorithm and its application for finding parameters will be discussed.

History

Received: September 22, 2016
Revised: March 9, 2017
Published: April 21, 2017

AMS Classification, Key Words

AMS Subject Classification: 43E70
Key Words and Phrases: mixture, chi-square distribution, method of moments, maximum likelihood estimators, EM algorithm

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DOI: 10.12732/ijpam.v114i1.3 How to cite this paper?

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN printed version: 1311-8080
ISSN on-line version: 1314-3395
Year: 2017
Volume: 114
Issue: 1
Pages: 29 - 40

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