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SUMMARY An example is given showing that a sequence generated by a GEM algorthm need not converge under the conditions stated in Dempster et al., (1977). Two general convergence results are presented which suggest that in practice a GEM sequence will converge to a compact connected set of local maxima of the likelihood function; this limit set may or may not consist of a single point.
Russell A. Boyles (Thu,) studied this question.