The joint role of trimming and constraints in robust estimation for mixtures of Gaussian factor analyzers

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2016.01.005zbMath1468.62060MaRDI QIDQ1659189

Alfonso Gordaliza, Francesca Greselin, Salvatore Ingrassia, Agustín Mayo-Iscar, Luis Angel García-Escudero

Publication date: 15 August 2018

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21412

zbMATH Keywords

model-based clusteringrobust estimationmixture modelsconstrained estimationfactor analyzers modeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics

62H25: Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis

62H12: Estimation in multivariate analysis

62H30: Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects)

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Uses Software

• R
• sn
• TCLUST

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