[R] Finite Mixture Analysis

[Mark E. Hall]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch] On
> Behalf Of Christian Hennig
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 6:41 PM
> To: Marc R. Feldesman
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Finite Mixture Analysis
> 
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Marc R. Feldesman wrote:
> 
> > Are there any S-Plus or R libraries/packages that do Finite Mixture
> > Analysis following the algorithms similar to those implemented in
Geoffrey
> > MacLachlan's EMMIX program?
> 
> Try package mclust. Not exactly the same, but similar. (If I remember
it
> correctly, differences are explained in McLachlan and Peel, Finite
Mixture
> Models, 2000.
> 
> Best,
> Christian


The differences in implementation and their resulting effects are
discussed in 
Papageorgiou et al., "Model-based cluster analysis of artifact
compositional data," ARCHAEOMETRY, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2001, pp. 571-588.

Best, MEH



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