In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Delgado Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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? In advance of what? Of seeing the data? There is a huge literature on determining the number of components AFTER seeing the data. In my opinion, it is mostly misdirected. I'd recommend that you consider carefully whether your real objective is actually connected to determining the number of components in a Gaussian mixture. I doubt that it is. Radford Neal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radford M. Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Statistics and Dept. of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Toronto http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
