期刊
ADVANCES IN DATA ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION
卷 7, 期 1, 页码 5-40出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11634-013-0124-8
关键词
Cluster-weighted models; Factor analysis; Mixture models; Parsimonious models
资金
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
In model-based clustering and classification, the cluster-weighted model is a convenient approach when the random vector of interest is constituted by a response variable and by a vector of covariates. However, its applicability may be limited when is high. To overcome this problem, this paper assumes a latent factor structure for in each mixture component, under Gaussian assumptions. This leads to the cluster-weighted factor analyzers (CWFA) model. By imposing constraints on the variance of and the covariance matrix of , a novel family of sixteen CWFA models is introduced for model-based clustering and classification. The alternating expectation-conditional maximization algorithm, for maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of all models in the family, is described; to initialize the algorithm, a 5-step hierarchical procedure is proposed, which uses the nested structures of the models within the family and thus guarantees the natural ranking among the sixteen likelihoods. Artificial and real data show that these models have very good clustering and classification performance and that the algorithm is able to recover the parameters very well.
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