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http://dx.doi.org/10.7465/jkdi.2015.26.2.313

Maximum likelihood estimation for a mixture distribution  

Hwang, Seonyeong (Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University)
Sohn, Seung Hye (Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University)
Oh, Changhyuck (Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.26, no.2, 2015 , pp. 313-322 More about this Journal
Abstract
A mixture distribution of a discrete uniform or degenerated distribution and two binomial distribution is proposed and a method of obtaining the maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters is provided. For the proposed model simulation studies were conducted to see performance of the maximum likelihood estimates and a mixture of a degenerated distribution and two binomial distributions was applied to fit a lecture evaluation data to show a good result.
Keywords
Binomial distribution; degenerated distribution; likelihood; maximum likelihood; mixture distribution;
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