Finite mixtures of multivariate Poisson distributions with application

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1942-1960

  Karlis, Dimitris ^a   Meligkotsidou, Loukia ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crime data; EM algorithm; Model based clustering; Multivariate count data; Multivariate Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846360024     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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