Finite mixture models
Research on finite mixture modeling has increased in recent years. In addition, mixture models are used in a wide range of disciplines. Therefore, a variety of results remain unknown from other disciplines though they could serve as a basis for further developments. The present authors tried hard to gather together the developments made over the last years on this hot topic of scientific research. The book provides an extensive review on finite mixture modeling focusing on the computational aspect of using such models in practice. The impact of computer machines allowed using complicated mixture models in a wide range of applications from several scientific disciplines. The book provides a vast amount of existing work on finite mixture modeling and in particular on estimation via the EM algorithm and related material. The book is divided into 13 chapters treating several different issues of finite mixture models. The first chapter describes the general finite mixture setting, discussing improvements made over the last years and problems addressed in this area. Chapter 2 reviews maximum likelihood estimation, with special focus on the EM algorithm, its properties and improvements proposed in the literature. Chapter 3 treats the multivariate normal mixture model, which is the basis for clustering algorithms. Problems encountered with this model are discussed in depth, like spurious local maximizers. Chapter 4 describes the Bayesian approach in finite mixture models that has been developed via Gibbs sampling schemes in the last decade. In chapter 5, non-normal models are treated, including mixtures of other distribution families, mixtures of generalized linear models like Poisson regression and logistic regression models, etc. Chapter 6 is devoted to the problem of assessing the number of components comprising the mixtures. Methodologies developed for this problem are reviewed. Chapter 7 contains material on multivariate \(t\) mixtures as robust alternatives to the multivariate normal mixture model. Mixtures of factor analyzers are described in chapter 8. The material of this chapter is quite novel. Binned data are treated in chapter 9, while mixture models for failure time data are proposed in chapter 10. Recent developments on mixtures of directional data are discussed in chapter 11. Chapter 12 describes variants of the EM algorithm suitable for large data sets. Such variants are quite useful for those working with large databases in disciplines related to statistics, like date miners. The last chapter describes hidden Markov models. Throughout the book there are several examples and case studies that enable the reader to follow the theoretical material discussed. The main element, in all the cases, is the use of EM algorithms and its variants that facilitate the estimating procedures. Theoretical results about mixtures are sparse in this book, which focuses mainly on an applications basis. The bibliography provided by the authors is considerable and hence one can find a lot of interesting papers that appeared in different research areas. Thus, the literature provided is a very useful guide for those working in this area. The book will become popular to many researchers as it provides a complete, up to date coverage of the topic and also discusses problems that may be further pursued by researchers in the forthcoming years. Students not familiar with computational topics may have some difficulty to follow the book at once, but they will love the fact that the material covered is so wide that it will make this book a standard reference for the forthcoming years.
- Bounds for the Bayes error in classification: a Bayesian approach using discriminant analysis
- The adjusted Viterbi training for hidden Markov models
- Probability distributions arising from nested Gaussians
- Learning from partially supervised data using mixture models and belief functions
- Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in a nonparametric mixture model
- A moment-based test for the homogeneity in mixture natural exponential family with quadratic variance functions
- Extending fuzzy and probabilistic clustering to very large data sets
- KNN-kernel density-based clustering for high-dimensional multivariate data
- A toolbox for \(K\)-centroids cluster analysis
- Interval estimation in a finite mixture model: Modeling \(P\)-values in multiple testing ap\-plications
- Model-based cluster and discriminant analysis with the MIXMOD software
- Cluster analysis using multivariate normal mixture models to detect differential gene expression with microarray data
- Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990s
- Estimation of Wood Fibre Length Distributions from Censored Data through an EM Algorithm
- A simultaneous learning framework for clustering and classification
- Logistic Normal Multinomial Factor Analyzers for Clustering Microbiome Data
- Consistency of minimizing a penalized density power divergence estimator for mixing distribution
- A mixture of mixture models for a classification problem: the unity measure error
- Using the EM algorithm for inference in a mixture of distributions with censored but partially identifiable data
- A linearization procedure and a VDM/ECM algorithm for penalized and constrained nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation for mixture models
- Estimation of the income distribution and detection of subpopulations: an explanatory model
- Maximum likelihood estimation of an extended latent Markov model for clustered binary panel data
- Multivariate mixed normal conditional heteroskedasticity
- Maximum likelihood computation based on the Fisher scoring and Gauss-Newton quadratic approximations
- Bayesian mixture models in a longitudinal setting for analysing sheep CAT scan images
- Editorial: Advances in mixture models
- Fitting finite mixtures of generalized linear regressions in \textsf{R}
- Imputation through finite Gaussian mixture models
- Extension of the mixture of factor analyzers model to incorporate the multivariate \(t\)-distribution
- Constrained monotone EM algorithms for finite mixture of multivariate Gaussians
- A hierarchical mixture model for clustering three-way data sets
- Mixture of two inverse Weibull distributions: properties and estimation
- A Dirichlet process mixture model for the analysis of correlated binary responses
- Classification of large data sets with mixture models via sufficient EM
- A stochastic EM algorithm for a semiparametric mixture model
- Bayesian analysis of finite mixtures of multinomial and negative-multinomial distributions
- A semi-parametric approach for mixture models: application to local false discovery rate estimation
- A quick procedure for model selection in the case of mixture of normal densities
- Nonlinear random effects mixture models: maximum likelihood estimation via the EM algorithm
- Exploratory tools for clustering multivariate data
- Gaussian mixture model classification: a projection pursuit approach
- High-dimensional data clustering
- Model-based methods to identify multiple cluster structures in a data set
- Inference for multivariate normal mixtures
- Model-based clustering for longitudinal data
- Interacting sequential Monte Carlo samplers for trans-dimensional simulation
- Block clustering with Bernoulli mixture models: comparison of different approaches
- Independent factor discriminant analysis
- The EM algorithm for the extended finite mixture of the factor analyzers model
- Bayesian density estimation using skew Student-\(t\)-normal mixtures
- A new approach for face recognition by sketches in photos
- Amalgamation of partitions from multiple segmentation bases: a comparison of non-model-based and model-based methods
- Value-at-risk via mixture distributions reconsidered
- A global algorithm to estimate the expectations of the components of an observed univariate mixture
- Identifiability of parameters in latent structure models with many observed variables
- Modelling with mixture of symmetric stable distributions using Gibbs sampling
- Clustering qualitative data based on binary equivalence relations: neighborhood search heuristics for the clique partitioning problem
- Quantile-based clustering
- Serial and parallel implementations of model-based clustering via parsimonious Gaussian mixture models
- On the estimation of mixtures of Poisson regression models with large number of components
- Robust estimation and regression with parametric quantile functions
- Clustering Data with Nonignorable Missingness using Semi-Parametric Mixture Models
- Multivariate mixture modeling using skew-normal independent distributions
- Robust mixture modeling based on scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions
- Optimal Bayesian estimators for latent variable cluster models
- On modeling left-truncated loss data using mixtures of distributions
- Deep mixtures of unigrams for uncovering topics in textual data
- Greedy clustering of count data through a mixture of multinomial PCA
- Model-based clustering of multivariate ordinal data relying on a stochastic binary search algorithm
- Simultaneous model-based clustering and visualization in the Fisher discriminative subspace
- Robust clustering by deterministic agglomeration EM of mixtures of multivariate \(t\)-distributions
- Robust fitting of mixtures using the trimmed likelihood estimator
- Robust fitting of mixture regression models
- A semiparametric method for clustering mixed data
- Clusters, outliers, and regression: Fixed point clusters
- EM algorithms for Gaussian mixtures with split-and-merge operation.
- Clustering multivariate data using factor analytic Bayesian mixtures with an unknown number of components
- Overfitting Bayesian mixtures of factor analyzers with an unknown number of components
- Local score tests in mixture exponential family
- Modelling inpatient length of stay by a hierarchical mixture regression via the EM algorithm.
- Time series modeling by a regression approach based on a latent process
- Modelling high-dimensional data by mixtures of factor analyzers
- Degeneracy in the maximum likelihood estimation of univariate Gaussian mixtures with EM.
- Model-based clustering and segmentation of time series with changes in regime
- Latent class analysis variable selection
- Replicability analysis for genome-wide association studies
- Manly transformation in finite mixture modeling
- Semiparametric mixture regression with unspecified error distributions
- Robust mixture regression model fitting by Laplace distribution
- Constrained parsimonious model-based clustering
- Clustering with mixtures of log-concave distributions
- Hypothesis testing for finite mixture models
- A profile likelihood method for normal mixture with unequal variance
- Multivariate locally adaptive density estimation.
- Dealing with multiple local modalities in latent class profile analysis
- Test for homogeneity in gamma mixture models using likelihood ratio
- Cox proportional hazards models with frailty for negatively correlated employment processes
- Improving estimates of Fried's index from mating competitiveness experiments
- Mixture models for clustering multilevel growth trajectories
- Model-based clustering of high-dimensional data: a review
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