A simulation study to compare robust clustering methods based on mixtures

DOI10.1007/s11634-010-0065-4zbMath1284.62366OpenAlexW2161910681WikidataQ60471590 ScholiaQ60471590MaRDI QIDQ2442777

Christian Hennig, Pietro Coretto

Publication date: 1 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11634-010-0065-4

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian mixturemodel-based clusteringnoise componentmixture of \(t\)-distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Point estimation (62F10) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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Uses Software

• mclust

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