A broadly applicable algorithm for computing maximum likelihood estimates from incomplete data is presented at various levels of generality. Theory showing the monotone behaviour of the likelihood and ...

Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE): A statistical technique that determines the parameters of a model by maximising the likelihood function, thereby identifying the most probable parameters given ...

The problem of estimating the parameters which determine a mixture density has been the subject of a large, diverse body of literature spanning nearly ninety years. During the last two decades, the ...