Bias in mixtures of normal distributions and joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data with monotonic change curves

Estimating parameters in a mixture of normal distributions dates back to the 19th century when Pearson originally considered data of crabs from the Bay of Naples. Since then, many real world applications of mixtures have led to various proposed methods for studying similar problems. Among them, maxi...

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Main Author: Lourens, Spencer
Other Authors: Zhang, Ying
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2015
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1685
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5737&context=etd