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The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives $\Vert P-Q{\Vert }_{\mathrm{TV}}=\frac{1}{2}{\mathbb{E}}_Q|dP/dQ-1|\le \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{{\chi }^2(P\Vert Q)}$. Every statistical hypothesis testing rule has sum of its Type I error and Type II error at least $1-\Vert P-Q{\Vert }_{\mathrm{TV}}$, proving the displayed bound. A mixture model of alternatives yields a lower bound on the worst alternative error because a maximum dominates an average.

For $Q(\theta \mid {\theta }_0)={\mathbb{E}}_{{\theta }_0}[\log p_{\theta }(Y,Z)\mid Y]$, the Jensen inequality givesThus any expectation-maximization algorithm M-step that increases $Q$ cannot decrease the observed-data likelihood function.^[ref]

For a short proof, assume common support and finite expressions, and keep the E-step conditional distribution $q_t(z)=p_{{\theta }^{(t)}}(z\mid y)$ fixed. The concavity of the logarithm and Jensen's inequality giveThis evidence lower bound equals $Q(\theta \mid {\theta }^{(t)})-{\mathbb{E}}_{q_t}\log q_t(Z)$. At $\theta ={\theta }^{(t)}$, the ratio inside the expectation is the constant $p_{{\theta }^{(t)}}(y)$, so equality holds. During the M-step, the second term is constant; increasing $Q$ raises a lower bound that touches the current log-likelihood. HenceIncreasing likelihood values alone do not establish convergence of the statistical parameters or attainment of a global maximum. In a differentiable finite mixture model, the gradient of $\ell$ equals the candidate-parameter gradient of $Q$ evaluated at the current fit. Thus an interior fixed point of an exact M-step is a stationary point, which need not be a local maximum; the Identical-mean EM trap is an explicit counterexample. Small changes in log-likelihood can also occur before the means have settled, so inspecting both is useful.

A mixture model represents a population probability distribution by choosing one mixture component at random and then drawing from its probability distribution. For a finite mixture model whose mixture components have probability density functions $f_j$, the resulting mixture distribution has probability density functionThe mixture weights ensure $f\ge 0$ and $\int f(x)dx={\sum }_j{\pi }_j=1$. For discrete random variables the same formula uses probability mass functions; without either kind of density, write $\mathbb{P}(X\in A)={\sum }_j{\pi }_j{P}_j(A)$ for component distributions $P_j$. A zero mixture weight makes that mixture component inactive.^[ref]

The mixture components need not occupy disjoint bins of $x$. Two normal distributions both have positive probability density functions everywhere, so the same value can plausibly come from either mixture component. The Two-Gaussian mixture example makes this overlap visible, and its mixture responsibilities quantify the remaining uncertainty about the latent variable. This is useful when a single normal distribution cannot represent the population's shape, but a fitted mixture model alone does not establish that its mixture components are real biological or social groups.

Let $p_0=\overline{\Phi }(2)$ and $p_1=\overline{\Phi }(2/\sqrt{1+V})$, where $\overline{\Phi }$ is the standard normal distribution upper-tail probability. The mixture model givesFor $V>0$, threshold inference for a mixture proportion therefore givesThis is a method-of-moments estimate when it lies in $[0,1]$. More formally, if $K$ of the $N$ independent genes exceed the threshold, then $K\sim \mathrm{Binomial}(N,(1-q)p_0+q{p}_1)$, and its constrained maximum-likelihood estimate clips the displayed value to $[0,1]$. No numerical estimate is determined without the given value of $V$.

Here $p_0\approx 0.02275$. Matching $15\%$ exactly requires $p_1\ge 0.15$, equivalently $V\ge [2/{\Phi }^{-1}(0.85){]}^2-1\approx 2.724$. For smaller positive $V$, the maximum is at $q=1$, and a large-sample exceedance fraction this high suggests a mismatch with the prescribed component variances. Sampling fluctuation is still possible; an observed fraction need not equal its expectation. If $V=0$, the denominator vanishes and this summary gives no information about $q$. Because $p_1<1/2$ for finite $V$, matching $15\%$ in expectation also forces $q>(0.15-p_0)/(0.5-p_0)\approx 0.267$. Thus the summary suggests tension with the earlier prior concentrated near $0.1$, under this mean-zero alternative model. The event is the one-sided exceedance $Y_i>2$, not $|Y_i|>2$.

Introduce a latent indicator $Z_i=1$ for a structural zero. In this parametrization $P(Z_i=1)={\pi }_i$, and conditional on $Z_i=0$ the response has a Poisson distribution with mean ${\mu }_i$. The zero-inflated Poisson regression usesIts observed probability mass function is ${\pi }_i+(1-{\pi }_i)e^{-{\mu }_i}$ at zero and $(1-{\pi }_i)e^{-{\mu }_i}{\mu }_i^{y_i}/y_i!$ at a positive count. The zero-mixing probability here is explicitly ${\pi }_i$; it is distinct from the weight of the count component.

For the expectation-maximization algorithm, start with positive ${\mu }_i$ and $0<{\pi }_i<1$. At iteration $k$, the E-step computesThis distinguishes structural zeros from Poisson-generated zeros. Up to terms independent of the new parameters, the expected complete-data log-likelihood isIt separates into a fractional-response logistic fit and a weighted Poisson fit. Because treatment is binary, each component is saturated over its two treatment groups, so the M-step has closed forms.

For $j=0,1$, let $I_j=\{i:x_i=j\}$, $n_j=|I_j|$, $S_j={\sum }_{i\in I_j}{\tau }_i$, and $C_j={\sum }_{i\in I_j}{y}_i$. The M-step score equations giveHere $\sum (1-{\tau }_i)y_i=C_j$, since every positive count has ${\tau }_i=0$. The explicit coefficient updates areIterate the E- and M-steps until the observed log-likelihood and parameter estimates stabilize. This is the EM algorithm for zero-inflated Poisson regression with explicit binary-group updates; merely naming two regression routines would not supply these expressions. Both treatment groups must be represented for both contrasts to be identifiable. Zero fitted group means or endpoint mixing probabilities are boundary solutions, interpreted through limits of the log or logit coefficients. As with other mixture models, multiple starts help distinguish competing stationary solutions; EM increases the likelihood but does not guarantee a global maximum from an arbitrary start.

With equal model prior probabilities, Bayes factor updating gives $w_0=B_{01}/(1+B_{01})$ and $w_1=1/(1+B_{01})$. The Bayesian model averaging posterior density is thereforeThis is a two-component mixture model of the normal distributions already derived. For the numerical observation above, $w_0\simeq 0.10829$ and $w_1\simeq 0.89171$. Consequently it is predominantly the wide-model posterior, not predominantly the narrow one.

Put ${\kappa }_i=n/(n+q_i)$. The posterior mean of the Gaussian practical-null mixture isNear zero, $B_{01}(0)>1$, so the narrow component has high posterior probability and ${\kappa }_0$ is small when $n_0\gg n$. This pulls the Bayesian model averaging posterior toward zero. For the given ratios, writing $z=\sqrt{n}y$ givesThus the order statement $y=O(n^{-1/2})$ alone does not guarantee strong pull toward zero: $z=3$ already has the opposite model preference.

As $|y|$ grows, $V_1>V_0$ makes $B_{01}(y)\to 0$, and the mixture model approaches $N({\kappa }_{1}y,1/(n+q_1))$. Its center is exactly ${\kappa }_{1}y$, and approximately $y$ only for a sufficiently diffuse wide prior, meaning $q_1\ll n$. Here ${\kappa }_1=100/101$, so the relative displacement is about one percent. Large observations alone do not remove this finite-prior shrinkage.

Condition on the fair coin, taken independent of $U$. For the squared uniform distribution, the cumulative distribution function of $U^2$ is $\sqrt{x}$ on $0<x<1$, giving probability density function $1/(2\sqrt{x})$. Reflection about $1/2$ gives the probability density function of $1-U^2$ as $1/(2\sqrt{1-x})$. Averaging the two conditional probability density functions produces this mixture model:There are no atoms at the endpoints; each integrable singularity contributes half the total mass. Equivalently the cumulative distribution function is $[\sqrt{x}+1-\sqrt{1-x}]/2$ on the interval.

For each ball, the event of landing in $S_j$ is a Bernoulli distribution trial. Under the null hypothesis its probability is $\epsilon$. Under the selected alternative $Q_j$, its probability is $p_1=\pi +(1-\pi )\epsilon =\epsilon +\pi (1-\epsilon )$. The placements are independent random variables conditional on that selected index, so the count has the binomial distribution:The second assertion concerns $Q_j$, rather than the unconditional mixture model $P_1$.

Put $a=\sqrt{n\log d/2}$ and $b=\sqrt{n\log (1/\delta )/2}$. Use the scan statistic $C$ and the statistical hypothesis testing ruleThe union bound and the Hoeffding inequality give $P_0(\psi =1)\le d\exp [-2(a+b{)}^2/n]\le \delta$, since $(a+b{)}^2\ge a^2+b^2$. Conditional on index $j$, accepting the null hypothesis implies $c_j\le n\epsilon +a+b$. The assumed separation gives $n\pi (1-\epsilon )>a+2b$, so this threshold lies more than $b$ below the alternative expected value $n{p}_1$. The lower-tail Hoeffding inequality therefore gives $Q_j(\psi =0)\le \delta$. Averaging the conditional error over the mixture model gives $P_1(\psi =0)\le \delta$ as well.

Two independent cyclic intervals intersect with probability at most $\min \{1,(2k-1)/d\}\le 2k/d$. For $k\le d/2$, precisely the $2k-1$ starting-point offsets $-(k-1),\dots ,k-1$ can overlap; for larger $k$, the upper bound is automatic. The cyclic interval overlap bound and the preceding chi-squared divergence estimate therefore giveAs in 1(e), the square-root hypothesis is meaningful when $\alpha d\ge 1$. The chi-squared testing lower bound bounds the total variation distance by $\sqrt{2{\alpha }^{\epsilon }}/2$. The worst individual Type II error dominates the error under the uniform mixture model. ThusTaking $\alpha$ small makes this lower bound informative. This argument uses the actual cyclic-interval alternative, without substituting a different family of subsets.

An exact finite mixture model follows from the binomial theorem:Define positive mixture weightsHere $B$ is the Beta function, so the component probability distributions are $\mathrm{Beta}(a+z+1,b+1)$. All coefficients are computable from the observed integer counts.

Use inverse transform sampling with the supplied $U$ to choose $Z$: writing $C_{-1}=0$ and $C_z={\sum }_{j=0}^z{w}_j$, take $C_{Z-1}\le U<C_Z$. Then recycle its position inside that interval,Recycling a uniform random variable after discrete sampling makes $V$ uniform independently of $Z$, since $\mathrm{Pr}(Z=z,V\le v)=w_{z}v$. It is also independent of all supplied random variables with gamma distributions. Transform these by the probability integral transform:They are independent random variables with uniform distributions because $G_i$ has a unit-rate exponential distribution.

Conditional on $Z=z$, put $k=a+z+b+1$ and $r=a+z+1$. Form the $k$ values $V,W_1,\dots ,W_{k-1}$ and return their $r$th order statistic. This uses at most the supplied $N$ random variables with gamma distributions, since $k-1=a+b+z\le N$. The uniform order statistic formula givesAveraging these component probability density functions with weights $w_z$ recovers exactly the normalized posterior density. Unused inputs can be discarded. When $N=0$, $Z=0$, $k=r=1$, and the output is $U$, as required. Interval endpoints and ties have probability zero; any consistent convention there is harmless. Exactness here concerns the mathematical algorithm; finite-precision arithmetic can be stabilized with logarithmic mixture weights.

If $L_j=d{P}_j/dQ$ and the nonnegative mixture weights sum to one, the likelihood ratio of the mixture model is $L={\sum }_j{w}_j{L}_j$. Expanding ${\mathbb{E}}_Q{L}^2-1$ proves the displayed chi-squared divergence identity. For independent random variables sampled from a fixed component, one-observation cross moments multiply across observations. The component is drawn once for the whole sample; redrawing it per observation gives a different mixture model.

For a two-component mixture model with known component tail probabilities $p_0,p_1$ above a threshold, the overall probability is $p(q)=(1-q)p_0+q{p}_1$. An empirical exceedance fraction $\hat{p}$ gives the displayed method-of-moments estimate when $p_1\ne p_0$. Under independent observations, the exceedance count has a binomial distribution, and its constrained maximum-likelihood estimate is the same expression clipped to $[0,1]$. Equal component tail probabilities make this summary uninformative about $q$.

Fitting a mixture model to regression residuals treats the fitted mean adjustment as fixed. Even with independent homoscedastic errors, ordinary least-squares residuals have covariance matrix ${\sigma }^2(I-H)$ and satisfy fitted linear constraints, so they are not exactly independent observations. A joint mixture regression with shared slopes or a bootstrap of the whole fitting process better accounts for the first-stage estimation uncertainty.