Mixtools: An R package for analyzing finite mixture models

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1-29

  Benaglia, Tatiana ^a   Chauveau, Didier ^b   Hunter, David R ^a   Young, Derek S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Cutpoint; EM algorithm; Mixture of regressions; Model based clustering; Nonparametric mixture; Semiparametric mixture; Unsupervised clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450203033     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v032.i06     Document Type: Article

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