A comparison of some methods for estimating mixed normal distributions
若干正态混合分布估计方法的比较
Fisher's method of maximum likelihood breaks down when applied to the problem of estimating the five parameters of a mixture of two normal densities from a continuous random sample of size n. Two alternative methods, (i) moment estimates and (ii) multinomial maximum likelihood and niinimum x2 estimates obtained by grouping the underlying variable, are compared both for bias to n⊟θ1 and mean squared error to n⊟θ2 for a variety of mixed distributions. The methods do not differ…