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Clustering Discrete-Valued Time Series

Methodology 2020-03-31 v2 Applications Machine Learning

Abstract

There is a need for the development of models that are able to account for discreteness in data, along with its time series properties and correlation. Our focus falls on INteger-valued AutoRegressive (INAR) type models. The INAR type models can be used in conjunction with existing model-based clustering techniques to cluster discrete-valued time series data. With the use of a finite mixture model, several existing techniques such as the selection of the number of clusters, estimation using expectation-maximization and model selection are applicable. The proposed model is then demonstrated on real data to illustrate its clustering applications.

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@article{arxiv.1901.09249,
  title  = {Clustering Discrete-Valued Time Series},
  author = {Tyler Roick and Dimitris Karlis and Paul D. McNicholas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.09249},
  year   = {2020}
}
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