Merging the components of a finite mixture using posterior probabilities

DOI10.1177/1471082X17735919MaRDI QIDQ5142230zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc Comas-Cufí, Josep-Antoni Martín-Fernández, Glòria Mateu-Figueras

Publication date 30 December 2020

Published in Statistical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1177/1471082x17735919

zbMATH Keywords

hierarchical clusteringlog-ratiomerging componentsmixture modelmodel-based clusteringsimplex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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Cited in

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• Merging MCMC subposteriors through Gaussian-process approximations
• Joining and splitting models with Markov melding

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Uses Software

• APCluster
• mclust
• R
• apcluster
• MixSim
• mixtools
• zCompositions

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