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Mixture Modeling

Mixture modeling assumes that a population is composed of K unobserved subpopulations, each described by its own probability distribution. The observed data are treated as draws from a weighted combination of these component distributions. It provides a principled, model-based alternative to ad hoc clustering and supports formal comparison of solutions with different numbers of components.

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Finite Mixture Modeling
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / statistics
  • McLachlan, G. J. & Peel, D. (2000). Finite Mixture Models. Wiley-Interscience. · ISBN 978-0471006268
  • Fraley, C. & Raftery, A. E. (2002). Model-based clustering, discriminant analysis, and density estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97(458), 611–631. · DOI 10.1198/016214502760047131
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