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2007 Feb 23
3
mixture of 2 normals - starting values
Hi, I have a problem of estimating a mixture of two normal distributions. I need to find the starting points automatically, since this is a part of a larger piece of image processing code. I found the mix2normal1 function in VGAM package that mentions a method of finding starting values for mu1 and mu2 but refers the reader to a book by Everitt and Hand. Unfortunately, I do not have an easy
2007 Oct 03
1
FW: help with mclust
> No HTML this time. Sorry Dear all, I am attempting to model some one-dimensional data using Gaussian mixture model with mclust.? Generally, the data that I have have 3 overlapping populations (with one of them being the majority, and the other two combining to less than 15%) and for some reason, mclust consistently ignores the smaller peaks, giving me strange values for the means