A note on density estimation for Poisson mixtures

Ian McKay

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1996, vol. 27, issue 3, 255-258

Abstract: Let X be a random variable that has the distribution of a Poisson mixture with an absolutely continuous mixing distribution. An elementary proof is given that any estimator of the mixing density must converge slower than any power of the sample size.

Keywords: Density; estimation; Poisson; mixtures; Species; abundance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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