Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Parameters in a Mixture Model
Satish Bhat, R. Vidya, V. Pandit Parameshwar · Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation · 2014
The estimation of parameters of the log normal distribution based on complete and censored samples are considered in the literature. In this article, the problem of estimating the parameters of log normal mixture model is considered. The Expectation Maximization algorithm is used to obtain maximum likelihood estimators for the parameters, as the likelihood equation does not yield closed form expression. The standard errors of the estimates are obtained. The methodology developed here is then illustrated through simulation studies. The confidence interval based on large-sample theory is obtained.