Hidden semi markov models for multiple observation sequences: The mhsmm package for R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-22

  O'Connell, Jared ^a   Hojsgaard, Soren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Duration density; EM algorithm; Hidden markov model; R; Sojourn time; Viterbi algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952970127     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v039.i04     Document Type: Article

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