Finite mixture-of-gamma distributions: estimation, inference, and model-based clustering

DOI10.1007/s11634-019-00361-yzbMath1474.62043OpenAlexW2947209829WikidataQ127821142 ScholiaQ127821142MaRDI QIDQ2303063

Derek S. Young, Xi Chen, Dilrukshi C. Hewage, Ricardo Nilo-Poyanco

Publication date: 2 March 2020

Published in: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. ADAC (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11634-019-00361-y

zbMATH Keywords

identifiabilityfinite mixture modelsstarting valuesECM algorithmsmixturegrammultivariate Gaussian copula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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Uses Software

• mclust
• R
• flexmix
• mixtools
• GSM
• lcmix

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