Testing for a Finite Mixture Model with Two Components
有限混合模型中两组分假设的检验
Summary We consider a finite mixture model with k components and a kernel distribution from a general one-parameter family. The problem of testing the hypothesis k=2 versusk⩾3 is studied. There has been no general statistical testing procedure for this problem. We propose a modified likelihood ratio statistic where under the null and the alternative hypotheses the estimates of the parameters are obtained from a modified likelihood function. It is shown that estimators of the…