A note on 'Testing the number of components in a normal mixture'

Neal O. Jeffries

Biometrika, 2003, vol. 90, issue 4, 991-994

Abstract: In a recent paper, Lo et al. (2001) propose a test for the likelihood ratio statistic based on the Kullback--Leibler information criterion when testing the null hypothesis that a random sample is drawn from a mixture of k-sub-0 normal components against the alternative hypothesis of a mixture with k-sub-1 normal components with k-sub-0 less than k-sub-1. However, this result requires conditions that are generally not met when the null hypothesis holds. Consequently, the result is not proven and simulations suggest that it may not be correct. Copyright Biometrika Trust 2003, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2003
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