Weakly homoscedastic constraints for mixtures of t-distributions

Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 219-228

  Greselin, Francesca ^a   Ingrassia, Salvatore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Mixture models; T Distributions; Weak homoscedasticity

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT DENSITY; COVARIANCE MATRICES; EM ALGORITHMS; HOMOSCEDASTICITY; MIXTURE MODEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SAMPLE DATA; T DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA HANDLING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84879590606     PISSN: 14318814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01044-6-20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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