Model-based clustering of multivariate skew data with circular components and missing values

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 927-945

  Lagona, Francesco ^a   Picone, Marco ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

circular data; EM algorithm; latent classes; missing values; skew normal; unsupervised classification; von Mises; wave; wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859640752     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2011.626850     Document Type: Article

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