Misturas de distribuições T de student assimétricas

Abstract

In this work we consider the estimation of parameters of a nite mixture of skew Student-t distributions, via EM algorithm. The main goals of this dissertation is to show a detailed description of the EM algorithm applied to this model and to evaluate the consistency of the estimator. A data set concerning the Gross Domestic Product per capita (Human Development Report), previously studied in the related literature, is analyzed.