[R] Mixtures of Discrete Uniforms

GlenB glnbrntt at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 06:07:55 CET 2010




Jim Silverton wrote:
> 
> I want to create the mixture formulation of a discrete uniform ie, say
> f(x) = 1/10, for i = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 and
> another discrete distribution which has the same values of x, but he
> probabilities can vary. Can this be done on any package in R?  an if so,
> can
> the package estimate the 'probabilities' of each of the x value as well as
> the mixing proportion if I have the data?
> 

Without some further restrictions on the second component, you have an
identifiability problem.


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