A maximum likelihood approximation method for Dirichlet's parameter estimation

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1315-1322

  Wicker, Nicolas ^a   Muller, Jean ^a,b   Kalathur, Ravi Kiran Reddy ^a   Poch, Olivier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dirichlet distribution; Maximum likelihood; Parameter estimation; Proteins clustering

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOLOGY; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; PROTEINS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; DIRICHLET'S PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROTEINS CLUSTERING; RONNING'S METHODS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

EID: 35548942752     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.07.011     Document Type: Article

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