On some Variants of the EM Algorithm for the Fitting of Finite Mixture Models

Finite mixture models are being increasingly used in statistical inference and to provide a model-based approach to cluster analysis. Mixture models can be fitted to independent data in a straightforward manner via the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. In this paper, we look at ways of speedi...

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Main Authors: Shu-Kay Ng, Geoffrey J. McLachlan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Austrian Statistical Society 2016-04-01
Series:Austrian Journal of Statistics
Online Access:http://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/454