Finite Mixture Models (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: October 2, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780471006268
First sentence: Finite mixtures of distributions have provided a mathematical-based approach to the statistical modeling of a wide variety of random phenomena.
Description: An up-to-date, comprehensive account of major issues in finite mixture modeling This volume provides an up-to-date account of the theory and applications of modeling via finite mixture distributions. With an emphasis on the applications of mixture models in both mainstream analysis and other areas such as unsupervised pattern recognition, speech recognition, and medical imaging, the book describes the formulations of the finite mixture approach, details its methodology, discusses aspects of its implementation, and illustrates its application in many common statistical contexts.