Improved model-based clustering performance using Bayesian initialization averaging

DOI10.1007/s00180-018-0855-2zbMath1417.62177arXiv1504.06870OpenAlexW2962942556MaRDI QIDQ1729337

Adrian O'Hagan, Arthur T. White

Publication date: 27 February 2019

Published in: Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06870

zbMATH Keywords

hierarchical clusteringmodel-based clusteringexpectation-maximization algorithmBayesian model averagingfinite mixture modelsmultimodal likelihood

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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Uses Software

• mclust
• L-BFGS-B
• L-BFGS
• LBFGS-B
• igraph
• e1071
• poLCA
• BayesLCA
• Algorithm 548

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