Clustering with mixtures of log-concave distributions

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2007.01.008zbMath1445.62141OpenAlexW2142163037MaRDI QIDQ158412

George T. Chang, Guenther Walther, George T. Chang, Guenther Walther

Publication date: August 2007

Published in: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2007.01.008

zbMATH Keywords

EM algorithmclusteringnormal copulalog-concave distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30)

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