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- Title
On the number of components in a Gaussian mixture model.
- Authors
McLachlan, Geoffrey J.; Rathnayake, Suren
- Abstract
Mixture distributions, in particular normal mixtures, are applied to data with two main purposes in mind. One is to provide an appealing semiparametric framework in which to model unknown distributional shapes, as an alternative to, say, the kernel density method. The other is to use the mixture model to provide a probabilistic clustering of the data into g clusters corresponding to the g components in the mixture model. In both situations, there is the question of how many components to include in the normal mixture model. We review various methods that have been proposed to answer this question. WIREs Data Mining Knowl Discov 2014, 4:341-355. doi: 10.1002/widm.1135 For further resources related to this article, please visit the . Conflict of interest: The authors have declared no conflicts of interest for this article.
- Subjects
GAUSSIAN mixture models; BAYESIAN analysis; DATA mining; KERNEL operating systems; ELECTRONIC data processing
- Publication
WIREs: Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, 2014, Vol 4, Issue 5, p341
- ISSN
1942-4787
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/widm.1135