Clustering with mixtures of log-concave distributions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6242-6251

  Chang, George T ^a   Walther, Guenther ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; EM algorithm; Log concave distribution; Normal copula

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUSTERING; EM ALGORITHM; LOG CONCAVE DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL COPULA;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34547190771     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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