Biernacki, Christophe; Chrétien, Stéphane - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 61 (2003) 4, pp. 373-382
As is well known, the likelihood in the Gaussian mixture is unbounded for any parameters such that a Dirac is placed at any observed sample point. The behavior of the EM algorithm near a degenerated solution is studied. It is established that there exists a domain of attraction around degeneracy...