User's guide to npmle R functions for fast ML computation for mixture proportions, including nonparametric MLE of the distribution function for censored data Paper: Improved EM for Mixture Proportions with Applications to Nonparametric ML Estimation for Censored Data Contact: Yaming Yu Department of Statistics, University of California Irvine, CA 92697-1250, USA yamingy@uci.edu Step 1. Save the source text files http://www.ics.uci.edu/~yamingy/npmle.c http://www.ics.uci.edu/~yamingy/npmle.r Step 2. Compile the C source code R CMD SHLIB -o npmle.so npmle.c Step 3. Run R and type source('npmle.r') Usage. See comments in the file npmle.r