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Identifiability of Finite Mixtures for Directional Data

John T. Kent

The Annals of Statistics · 1983 · Volume 11 · Issue 3

DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176346264

Abstract

In some problems of directional data, finite mixtures of simple distributions have been proposed as statistical models. In this paper we show that for a wide class of directional distributions, all such mixtures are identifiable.

Keywords

62E10, directional data, finite mixture, Identifiability, Stiefel manifold

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