R help - Jul 2009 - EM Clustering

Hi all,

 could someone send me examples of the EM Clustering algorithm and/or
some pdf describing it?

 Thanks,

Douglas Sousa.

Hi,

On Jul 20, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Douglas Sousa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> could someone send me examples of the EM Clustering algorithm and/or
> some pdf describing it?
Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation-maximization_algorithm

You'll find useful links in the references and external links  
sections, with claims of being intuitive/gentle intros to EM:

A Gentle Tutorial of the EM Algorithm and its Application to Parameter  
Estimation for Gaussian Mixture and Hidden Markov Models
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bilmes98gentle.html

The Expectation Maximization Algo
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert/em-paper.pdf

HTH,
-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact

Look at the "mclust" package. 


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Hi all,

 could someone send me examples of the EM Clustering algorithm and/or some
pdf describing it?

 Thanks,

Douglas Sousa.

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