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twilight zone [of statistics]

February 25, 2016
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twilight zone [of statistics]

“I have decided that mixtures, like tequila, are inherently evil and should be avoided at all costs.” L. Wasserman Larry Wasserman once remarked that finite mixtures were like the twilight zone of statistics, thanks to the numerous idiosyncrasies associated with such models. And George Casella had similar strong reservations about mixture estimation. Avi Feller and […]

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