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Finite Mixture of Skewed Distributions / Víctor Hugo Lachos Dávila, Celso Rômulo Barbosa Cabral, Camila Borelli Zeller

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics - ABE | Springer eBook Collection | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Cham : Springer, [2018]Copyright date: © 2018Description: Online-Ressource (X, 101 Seiten) : Illustrationen, DiagrammeISBN:
  • 9783319980294
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783319980287 | 9783319980300 | Erscheint auch als: 978-3-319-98028-7 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 519.5
MSC: MSC: *62-02 | 62H30 | 62E10 | 60E05 | 62F35 | 62E15 | 62E20 | 62J05LOC classification:
  • QA276-280
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98029-4Online resources: Summary: This book presents recent results in finite mixtures of skewed distributions to prepare readers to undertake mixture models using scale mixtures of skew normal distributions (SMSN). For this purpose, the authors consider maximum likelihood estimation for univariate and multivariate finite mixtures where components are members of the flexible class of SMSN distributions. This subclass includes the entire family of normal independent distributions, also known as scale mixtures of normal distributions (SMN), as well as the skew-normal and skewed versions of some other classical symmetric distributions: the skew-t (ST), the skew-slash (SSL) and the skew-contaminated normal (SCN), for example. These distributions have heavier tails than the typical normal one, and thus they seem to be a reasonable choice for robust inference. The proposed EM-type algorithm and methods are implemented in the R package mixsmsn, highlighting the applicability of the techniques presented in the book. This work is a useful reference guide for researchers analyzing heterogeneous data, as well as a textbook for a graduate-level course in mixture models. The tools presented in the book make complex techniques accessible to applied researchers without the advanced mathematical background and will have broad applications in fields like medicine, biology, engineering, economic, geology and chemistrySummary: Chapter 1: Motivation -- Chapter 2: Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Normal Mixtures -- Chapter 3: Scale Mixtures of Skew-normal distributions -- Chapter 4: Univariate mixtures of SMSN distributions -- Chapter 5: Multivariate mixtures of SMSN distributions -- Chapter 6: Mixture of Regression ModelsPPN: PPN: 1041331207Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SMA | ZDB-2-SXMS
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