A New Generation of Mixture-Model Cluster Analysis with Information Complexity and the Genetic EM Algorithm
In this dissertation, we extend several relatively new developments in statistical model selection and data mining in order to improve one of the workhorse statistical tools - mixture modeling (Pearson, 1894). The traditional mixture model assumes data comes from several populations of Gaussian dist...
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Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange
2009
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| Online Access: | http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/863 |