论文信息 - Testing in Normal Mixture Models with Some Information on the Parameters

Testing in Normal Mixture Models with Some Information on the Parameters

The aim of this paper is to study the distribution of the likelihood ratio for testing whether or not one is sampling from a mixture of two distributions or from a single distribution. We study the case where some information is available on the variation range of the parameters of populations. First we study the simplest case in which the difference between the mean of the two populations is known. We show certain distortions between theoretical and simulation results. Secondly, we show how this distortion spreads to the situation where this difference belongs to an interval. Finally, we give an example concerning the detection of major genes in animal population.

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