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Dimensionally Reduced Model-Based Clustering Through Mixtures of Factor Mixture Analyzers

Dimensionally Reduced Model-Based Clustering Through Mixtures of Factor Mixture Analyzers Dimensionally reduced model-based clustering methods are recently receiving a wide interest in statistics as a tool for performing simultaneously clustering and dimension reduction through one or more latent variables. Among these, Mixtures of Factor Analyzers assume that, within each component, the data are generated according to a factor model, thus reducing the number of parameters on which the covariance matrices depend. In Factor Mixture Analysis clustering is performed through the factors of an ordinary factor analysis which are jointly modelled by a Gaussian mixture. The two approaches differ in genesis, parameterization and consequently clustering performance. In this work we propose a model which extends and combines them. The proposed Mixtures of Factor Mixture Analyzers provide a unified class of dimensionally reduced mixture models which includes the previous ones as special cases and could offer a powerful tool for modelling non-Gaussian latent variables. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Classification Springer Journals

Dimensionally Reduced Model-Based Clustering Through Mixtures of Factor Mixture Analyzers

Viroli, Cinzia
Journal of Classification , Volume 27 (3) – Oct 16, 2010
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2010 by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Subject
Statistics; Marketing ; Psychometrics; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Bioinformatics; Pattern Recognition; Statistical Theory and Methods
ISSN
0176-4268
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1432-1343
DOI
10.1007/s00357-010-9063-7
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Abstract

Dimensionally reduced model-based clustering methods are recently receiving a wide interest in statistics as a tool for performing simultaneously clustering and dimension reduction through one or more latent variables. Among these, Mixtures of Factor Analyzers assume that, within each component, the data are generated according to a factor model, thus reducing the number of parameters on which the covariance matrices depend. In Factor Mixture Analysis clustering is performed through the factors of an ordinary factor analysis which are jointly modelled by a Gaussian mixture. The two approaches differ in genesis, parameterization and consequently clustering performance. In this work we propose a model which extends and combines them. The proposed Mixtures of Factor Mixture Analyzers provide a unified class of dimensionally reduced mixture models which includes the previous ones as special cases and could offer a powerful tool for modelling non-Gaussian latent variables.

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Journal of Classification – Springer Journals

Published: Oct 16, 2010

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