mclustVariance {mclust}R Documentation

Template for variance specification for parameterized Gaussian mixture models.

Description

Specification of variance parameters for the various types of Gaussian mixture models.

Details

In all cases, the value -1 is used as a placeholder for unknown nonzero entries.

References

C. Fraley and A. E. Raftery (2002). Model-based clustering, discriminant analysis, and density estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association 97:611:631.

C. Fraley and A. E. Raftery (2006). MCLUST Version 3 for R: Normal Mixture Modeling and Model-Based Clustering, Technical Report no. 504, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.


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