The topography of multivariate normal mixtures

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2042-2065

  Ray, Surajit ^a,c   Lindsay, Bruce G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Dimension reduction; Manifold; Mixture; Modal cluster; Multivariate mode; Topography

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344468432     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000417     Document Type: Article

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