Finite Mixture Models

GEOFFREY McLACHLAN, PhD, DSc, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Queensland, Australia. DAVID PEEL, PhD, is a research fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Queensland, Australia.

• General Introduction. ML Fitting of Mixture Models. Multivariate Normal Mixtures. Bayesian Approach to Mixture Analysis. Mixtures with Nonnormal Components. Assessing the Number of Components in Mixture Models. Multivariate t Mixtures. Mixtures of Factor Analyzers. Fitting Mixture Models to Binned Data. Mixture Models for Failure-Time Data. Mixture Analysis of Directional Data. Variants of the EM Algorithm for Large Databases. Hidden Markov Models. Appendices. References. Indexes.

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