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FEB Research Report KBI_1401B

Publication date: 2014-01-01
Publisher: KU Leuven - Faculty of Economics and Business; Leuven (Belgium)

Author:

Verbelen, Roel

Abstract:

In this addendum, we present the EM algorithm of Lee and Lin (2010) custimized for fitting mixtures of Erlang distributions with a common scale parameter to uncensored and untruncated data. We work out the details with zero-one component indicators inspired by McLachlan and Peel (2001) and Lee and Scott (2012).