Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1152348 | Statistics & Probability Letters | 2012 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We investigate the possibility of approximating the variance gamma distribution with a finite mixture of normals. Therefore, we apply this result to derive a simple historical estimation procedure by means of the Expectation Maximization algorithm.
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Authors
Angela Loregian, Lorenzo Mercuri, Edit Rroji,