A note on the EM algorithm for estimation in the destructive negative binomial cure rate model

作者:Gallardo Diego I*; Gomez Yolanda M; de Castro Mario
来源:Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2017, 87(12): 2291-2297.
DOI:10.1080/00949655.2017.1327589

摘要

In this note we present a modification in the EM algorithm for the destructive negative binomial cure rate model. This alteration enables us to obtain the estimates of the whole parameter vector from the complete log-likelihood function, avoiding the corresponding observed log-likelihood function, which is more involved. To achieve this goal, we resort to the mixture representation of the negative binomial distribution in terms of the Poisson and gamma distributions.

  • 出版日期2017

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