Test on components of mixture densities
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چکیده
This paper deals with statistical tests on the components of mixture densities. We propose to test whether the densities of two independent samples of independent random variables Y 1 ,. .. , Y n and Z 1 ,. .. , Z n result from the same mixture of M components or not. We provide a test procedure which is proved to be asymptotically optimal according to the minimax setting. We extensively discuss the connection between the mixing weights and the performance of the testing procedure; this link had never been clearly established up to now.
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