There is a book called "Statistical Analysis of Finite Mixture distributions" by Titterington (1987) which provides a number of back-of-the-envelope methods of graphical estimation for gaussian mixtures.
p On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, David Delgado Gomez wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me if there is any method to determine the number of > components in a mixture of Gaussians automatically in advance. are there > any papers written on this subject? > Thanks > David > > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= > Pradyumna S Upadrashta, PhD Student Grad Prog Scientific Computation University of Minnesota . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
