A penalized likelihood estimation for mixture regressions with skew-normal errors
摘要
This paper establishes identifiability results for mixture regression models with skew-normal errors under both fixed and random designs. We propose a novel penalized maximum likelihood estimation method for such models and demonstrate the strong consistency of the proposed estimator. An EM-type algorithm is developed to derive the penalized estimator. The finite sample properties of the proposed methodology are examined using extensive simulations, and a real data example is presented for illustration.