A new approach of genetic-based EM algorithm for mixture models

Finite mixture models have been receiving important attention over the years from a practical and theoretical point of view, but it is still a challenging task to estimate a reasonable estimator based on the maximum likelihood method. The most widely used technique to solve the problem, to some extent, is the EM algorithm. Researchers have done a lot of work to improve the results of the EM algorithm by modifying its basic idea.

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