Lina,
Stas is right - Fraley and Raftery's approach is implemented in R in
the 'mclust' package.
They also have a nice piece in JASA 97 (p. 611-31) explaining the
general procedure...
Best,
Daniel
2007/8/26, Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>:
> There were some commands to do normal mixtures (which you could try to
> -findit-), but Fraley & Raftery's approach is deeply Bayesian, which
> does not mesh up terribly well with Stata's concepts. I would guess
> they had their implementation in Splus, as there were no R around back
> in 1990s, but they may have ported in to R since then.
>
> On 8/24/07, Lina Jonsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I know that there exist a function called mclust that works with S-PLUS for Model-based Cluster Analysis according to an article by Fraley and Raftery from 1998. Sense I�m no expert when it comes to clustering, it�s hard for me to be more specific. But in the article model-based cluster analysis is described as "In model-based cluster analysis data are represented by a mixture model in which each component corresponds to a different cluster. Models with varying geomteric properties are obtained through Gaussian compnents with different parameterixations and cross-cluster constraints..." I hope this gives you a clue to what I`m after. I appreciate all the help and suggestions I can get.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Lina Jonsson
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > > Fr�n: [email protected]
> > > [mailto:[email protected]] F�r Marcello Pagano
> > > Skickat: den 24 augusti 2007 14:25
> > > Till: [email protected]
> > > �mne: Re: st: Model-based Clustering
> > >
> > > Can you be a little more specific please, Lina?
> > > Clustering can have about three different meanings in a
> > > statistical context, and that's just off the top of my head,
> > > that are quite different.
> > >
> > > m.p.
> > >
> > > Lina Jonsson wrote:
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to do model-based clustering so I wonder if
> > > there are any
> > > > commands for doing this i Stata.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards
> > > >
> > > > Lina Jonsson
> > > >
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