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On numerical evaluation of maximum-likelihood estimates for finite mixtures of distributions. (English) Zbl 0489.62028


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62F10 Point estimation
65C99 Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations
62F12 Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators
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