Hettmansperger, T. P.; Thomas, Hoben Almost nonparametric inference for repeated measures in mixture models. (English) Zbl 0957.62026 J. R. Stat. Soc., Ser. B, Stat. Methodol. 62, No. 4, 811-825 (2000). Summary: We consider ways to estimate the mixing proportions in a finite mixture distribution or to estimate the number of components of the mixture distribution without making parametric assumptions about the component distributions. We require a vector of observations on each subject. This vector is mapped into a vector of 0s and 1s and summed. The resulting distribution of sums can be modelled as a mixture of binomials. We then work with the binomial mixture. The efficiency and robustness of this method are compared with the strategy of assuming multivariate normal mixtures when, typically, the true underlying mixture distribution is different. It is shown that in many cases the approach based on simple binomial mixtures is superior. Cited in 18 Documents MSC: 62G05 Nonparametric estimation Keywords:EM algorithm; exchangeability; model selection; model-free approach; binomial mixture PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{T. P. Hettmansperger} and \textit{H. Thomas}, J. R. Stat. Soc., Ser. B, Stat. Methodol. 62, No. 4, 811--825 (2000; Zbl 0957.62026) Full Text: DOI OpenURL