Testing Homogeneity in a Mixture Distribution via the L 2 Distance Between Competing Models
基于竞争模型L²距离的混合分布同质性检验
Ascertaining the number of components in a mixture distribution is an interesting and challenging problem for statisticians. Chen, Chen, and Kalbfleisch recently proposed a modified likelihood ratio test (MLRT), which is distribution-free and locally most powerful, asymptotically. In this article we present a new method for testing whether a finite mixture distribution is homogeneous. Our method, the D test, is based on the L2 distance between a fitted homogeneous model and…