From: Stan Pawlukiewicz <stanp@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: sum of Gaussians
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:16:11 +0000
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
Keywords: Fitting a function to a sum of Gaussian bell curves

Guy Droogmans wrote:

> I am looking for an algorithm for fitting a sum of Gaussian fucntions
> Any help is welcome
> --
> Guy Droogmans
> Laboratorium voor Fysiologie
> Campus Gasthuisberg, KU Leuven
> B-3000 Leuven (Belgium)
> Tel +32 (16) 345 726
> Fax +31 (16) 345 991

Look at the survey paper

Mixture Densities, Maximum Likelihood and the EM Algorithm, by Redner
and Walker, SIAM Review , v 26, no 2, April 84

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