Model selection for Gaussian mixture models

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Abstract: This paper is concerned with an important issue in finite mixture modelling, the selection of the number of mixing components. We propose a new penalized likelihood method for model selection of finite multivariate Gaussian mixture models. The proposed method is shown to be statistically consistent in determining of the number of components. A modified EM algorithm is developed to simultaneously select the number of components and to estimate the mixing weights, i.e. the mixing probabilities, and unknown parameters of Gaussian distributions. Simulations and a real data analysis are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed method.




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