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Classification with the matrix-variate-$t$ distribution

Methodology 2019-12-24 v2 Applications Computation Machine Learning

Abstract

Matrix-variate distributions can intuitively model the dependence structure of matrix-valued observations that arise in applications with multivariate time series, spatio-temporal or repeated measures. This paper develops an Expectation-Maximization algorithm for discriminant analysis and classification with matrix-variate tt-distributions. The methodology shows promise on simulated datasets or when applied to the forensic matching of fractured surfaces or the classification of functional Magnetic Resonance, satellite or hand gestures images.

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@article{arxiv.1907.09565,
  title  = {Classification with the matrix-variate-$t$ distribution},
  author = {Geoffrey Z. Thompson and Ranjan Maitra and William Q. Meeker and Ashraf Bastawros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09565},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures

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