On 31 Mar 2004 at 16:50, 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
Surely there is, but I haven't any references handy. In R (google for R if you don't know it), there are several packages implementes (on CRAN) for mixtire modelling (normix, mclust, mclust1998). One way to choose number of components could be AIC. Kjetil Halvorsen > > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
