A generalized linear finite mixture model and an EM algorithm to fit the model to data are described. By this approach the finite mixture model is embedded within the general framework of generalized ...

Many disease resistance traits in plants have a polygenic background and the disease phenotypes are modified by environmental factors. As a consequence, the phenotypic values usually show a ...

We show that the ECM algorithm can always be constructed to converge at the same or approximately the same rate as the EM algorithm. The construction is based on the well-known conjugate directions ...