Nonparametric EM Algorithms for estimating prior distributions

Maximum Likelihood from Incomplete Data Via the <i>EM</i> Algorithm

A. P. Dempster, N. M. Laird, Donald B. Rubin · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 1977 · 49.2K citations

Statistical Signal Processing, Mixture Distribution, Engineering +13

A Maximization Technique Occurring in the Statistical Analysis of Probabilistic Functions of Markov Chains

Leonard E. Baum, Ted Petrie, George Soules · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1970 · 4.3K citations · Full text

Mathematical Programming, Markov Chains, Engineering +10

On the Convergence Properties of the EM Algorithm

Changbao Wu · The Annals of Statistics · 1983 · 3.3K citations · Full text

Em Algorithm, Parameter Estimation, Statistical Signal Processing +12

Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Mixing Distribution

Nan M. Laird · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1978 · 723 citations

Mixture Distribution, Engineering, Density Estimation +9

The Geometry of Mixture Likelihoods: A General Theory

Bruce G. Lindsay · The Annals of Statistics · 1983 · 637 citations · Full text

Finite Mixtures, Exponential Family Mixtures, Engineering +11