A kurtosis and skewness based criterion for model selection on Gaussian mixture

Proceedings of the 2009 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Lin ^a   Ma, Jinwen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MODELING; EM ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; GAUSSIANS; GREEDY EM ALGORITHM; MODEL SELECTION; MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA; NEW MODEL; SAMPLE DATA; SIMULATION RESULT; STATISTICAL TOOLS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MIXTURES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 74049134391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2009.5305528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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