An Improved Version of the Quandt-Ramsey MGF Estimator for Mixtures of Normal Distributions and Switching Regressions
正态混合分布与切换回归的 Quandt–Ramsey 矩母函数估计量改进
Quandt and Ramsey have suggested an estimator for normal mixtures and switching regressions, which minimizes a sum of squared differences between empirical and theoretical values of the moment generating function. This paper demonstrates how their estimator can be improved by minimizing a generalized sum of squares rather than an ordinary sum of squares. When this is done, more points of evaluation (moments) are unambiguously better than less. Most of the results presented…