Estimation Of Finite Mixture Models
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Finite Mixture and Markov Switching Models
Author: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2006-11-24
The past decade has seen powerful new computational tools for modeling which combine a Bayesian approach with recent Monte simulation techniques based on Markov chains. This book is the first to offer a systematic presentation of the Bayesian perspective of finite mixture modelling. The book is designed to show finite mixture and Markov switching models are formulated, what structures they imply on the data, their potential uses, and how they are estimated. Presenting its concepts informally without sacrificing mathematical correctness, it will serve a wide readership including statisticians as well as biologists, economists, engineers, financial and market researchers.
Finite Mixture Models
Author: Geoffrey McLachlan
language: en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: 2004-03-22
An up-to-date, comprehensive account of major issues in finitemixture modeling This volume provides an up-to-date account of the theory andapplications of modeling via finite mixture distributions. With anemphasis on the applications of mixture models in both mainstreamanalysis and other areas such as unsupervised pattern recognition,speech recognition, and medical imaging, the book describes theformulations of the finite mixture approach, details itsmethodology, discusses aspects of its implementation, andillustrates its application in many common statisticalcontexts. Major issues discussed in this book include identifiabilityproblems, actual fitting of finite mixtures through use of the EMalgorithm, properties of the maximum likelihood estimators soobtained, assessment of the number of components to be used in themixture, and the applicability of asymptotic theory in providing abasis for the solutions to some of these problems. The author alsoconsiders how the EM algorithm can be scaled to handle the fittingof mixture models to very large databases, as in data miningapplications. This comprehensive, practical guide: * Provides more than 800 references-40% published since 1995 * Includes an appendix listing available mixture software * Links statistical literature with machine learning and patternrecognition literature * Contains more than 100 helpful graphs, charts, and tables Finite Mixture Models is an important resource for both applied andtheoretical statisticians as well as for researchers in the manyareas in which finite mixture models can be used to analyze data.
Estimation of Finite Mixture Models
A recorded signal frequently results from the mixture of many signals from several classifiable sources. Knowledge of the contribution of the underlying sources to the recorded signal is valuable in several applications, such as remote sensing. Such mixtures may be analyzed using finite mixture models. Historically, finite mixture models decompose a density as the sum of a finite number of component densities. Current methods for estimating the contribution of each component assume a parametric form for the mixture components. Furthermore, these methods assume a collection of samples from the mixture are observed rather than an aggregate representation of the samples, such as a histogram. This work introduces a method to address the many practical cases where parametric mixture models are insufficient to describe the mixture components. The observed mixture is assumed to occur in an aggregate representation of samples. Thus, the mixture components are represented as finite-length signals or vectors. The proposed method incorporates the first and second order statistics of the mixture components obtained from previously collected samples of the mixture components. The new method is based on the set theoretic method of successive projections onto convex sets (POCS). The set theoretic approach defines a set of feasible solutions as the intersection of sets consistent with the prior knowledge of a desirable solution. POCS is an iterative procedure used to find a point in the set of feasible solutions. This work considers several sets describing the finite mixture model, including a new model set generalizing a set based on the error-in-variables model. To illustrate the viability of the new method, comparisons are made with the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for mixtures with parametric components. Simulations of mixture with nonparametric components emphasize the advantages of the new method, since no other methods address mixtures with nonparametric component.