Solving Finite Mixture Models: Efficient Computation in Economics Under Serial and Parallel Execution

Computational Economics - Tập 25 Số 4 - Trang 343-379 - 2005
Christopher Ferrall1
1Department of Economics, Dunning Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6

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