Robust mixture modelling using multivariate t-distribution with missing information

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 701-710

  Wang, Hai xian ^a   Zhang, Quan bing ^a   Luo, Bin ^a   Wei, Sui ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Finite mixture model; Missing values; Multivariate t distribution; Robust fitting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

MULTIVARIATE DATA; ROBUST MIXTURE MODELING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842714898     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.01.010     Document Type: Article

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