Model-Based Clustering and Classification for Data Science

Charles Bouveyron is Full Professor of Statistics at Université Côte d'Azur and the Chair of Excellence in Data Science at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt. He has published extensively on model-based clustering, particularly for networks and high-dimensional data. Gilles Celeux is Director of Research Emeritus at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt. He is one of the founding researchers in model-based clustering, having published extensively in the area for thrity-five years. T. Brendan Murphy is Full Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin. His research interests include model-based clustering, classification, network modeling and latent variable modeling. Adrian E. Raftery is the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington. He is one of the founding researchers in model-based clustering, having published in the area since 1984.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Model-based clustering: basic ideas; 3. Dealing with difficulties; 4. Model-based classification; 5. Semi-supervised clustering and classification; 6. Discrete data clustering; 7. Variable selection; 8. High-dimensional data; 9. Non-Gaussian model-based clustering; 10. Network data; 11. Model-based clustering with covariates; 12. Other topics; List of R packages; Bibliography; Index.

'Bouveyron, Celeux, Murphy, and Raftery pioneered the theory, computation, and application of modern model-based clustering and discriminant analysis. Here they have produced an exhaustive yet accessible text, covering both the field's state of the art as well as its intellectual development. The authors develop a unified vision of cluster analysis, rooted in the theory and computation of mixture models. Embedded R code points the way for applied readers, while graphical displays develop intuition about both model construction and the critical but often-neglected estimation process. Building on a series of running examples, the authors gradually and methodically extend their core insights into a variety of exciting data structures, including networks and functional data. This text will serve as a backbone for graduate study as well as an important reference for applied data scientists interested in working with cutting-edge tools in semi- and unsupervised machine learning.' John S. Ahlquist, University of California, San Diego