Note on the consistency of the maximum likelihood estimate for nonidentifiable distributions

Authors
Redner, Richard
Citation
. Redner, Richard, Note on the consistency of the maximum likelihood estimate for nonidentifiable distributions, Annals of statistics , 9(1), 1981, pp. 225-228
Journal title
Annals of statistics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00905364
Volume
9
Issue
1
Year of publication
1981
Pages
225 - 228
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
The results of Wald on the consistency of the maximum likelihood estimate are extended. Applications are made to mixture distributions and to clustering when the number of clusters is not known.