Books by B. Everitt

Finite mixture distributions arise in a variety of applications ranging from the length distribution of fish to the content of DNA in the nuclei of liver cells. 1 Introduction This monograph is concerned with statistical distributions which can be expressed as superpositions of (usually simpler) component distributions.

Optimization techniques are used to find the values of a set of parameters which maximize or minimize some objective function of interest. It is hoped that the text will be useful to students on applied statistics courses and to researchers needing to use optimization techniques in a statistical context.