Hi, dear R experts . is there any package contain an universal EM procedure, that is , for arbitrary d.f. , not just the one in mclust . thanks in advance best regards ----------------------------------------------- Peng Jiang ?? ,Ph.D. Candidate Antai College of Economics & Management ???????? Department of Mathematics ??? Shanghai Jiaotong University (Minhang Campus) 800 Dongchuan Road 200240 Shanghai P. R. China
I don't think there can be. The EM algorithm isn't really an algorithm -- it's an outline for an algorithm. Patrick Burns patrick at burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Peng Jiang wrote:> Hi, dear R experts . > is there any package contain an universal EM procedure, > that is , for arbitrary d.f. , not just the one in mclust . > > thanks in advance > > best regards > ----------------------------------------------- > Peng Jiang ?? ,Ph.D. Candidate > Antai College of Economics & Management > ???????? > Department of Mathematics > ??? > Shanghai Jiaotong University (Minhang Campus) > 800 Dongchuan Road > 200240 Shanghai > P. R. China > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.