Note on the Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate for Nonidentifiable Distributions
The Annals of Statistics · 1981 · Volume 9 · Issue 1
Abstract
The results of Wald on the consistency of the maximum likelihood estimate are extended. Applications are made to mixture distributions and to clustering when the number of clusters is not known.
Keywords
62F10, clustering, consistency, maximum likelihood estimation, mixture densities
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