Parsimonious Gaussian mixture models

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-296

  McNicholas, Paul David ^a   Murphy, Thomas Brendan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Mixture models; Model based clustering; Probabilistic principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449088666     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-008-9056-0     Document Type: Article

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