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The skew-normal and the skew-$t$ distributions are parametric families which are currently under intense investigation since they provide a more flexible formulation compared to the classical normal and $t$ distributions by introducing a…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-03-13 Adelchi Azzalini , Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle

Cluster-weighted models (CWMs) extend finite mixtures of regressions (FMRs) in order to allow the distribution of covariates to contribute to the clustering process. In a matrix-variate framework, the matrix-variate normal CWM has been…

In recent years, data have become increasingly higher dimensional and, therefore, an increased need has arisen for dimension reduction techniques for clustering. Although such techniques are firmly established in the literature for…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-30 Michael P. B. Gallaugher , Paul D. McNicholas

Popular deterministic approximations of posterior distributions from, e.g. the Laplace method, variational Bayes and expectation-propagation, generally rely on symmetric approximating families, often taken to be Gaussian. This choice…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-19 Francesco Pozza , Daniele Durante , Botond Szabo

Many approximate Bayesian inference methods assume a particular parametric form for approximating the posterior distribution. A multivariate Gaussian distribution provides a convenient density for such approaches; examples include the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-20 Jackson Zhou , Clara Grazian , John Ormerod

The use of a finite mixture of normal distributions in model-based clustering allows to capture non-Gaussian data clusters. However, identifying the clusters from the normal components is challenging and in general either achieved by…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-21 Gertraud Malsiner-Walli , Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter , Bettina Grün

This paper exploits a simplified version of the mixture of multivariate t-factor analyzers (MtFA) for robust mixture modelling and clustering of high-dimensional data that frequently contain a number of outliers. Two classes of eight…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-12 Tsung-I Lin , Paul D. McNicholas , Hsiu J. Ho

Mixtures of skew-t distributions offer a flexible choice for model-based clustering. A mixture model of this sort can be implemented using a variety of formulations of the skew-t distribution. Herein we develop a mixture of skew-t factor…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Paula M. Murray , Ryan P. Browne , Paul D. McNicholas

Probabilistic mixture models have been widely used for different machine learning and pattern recognition tasks such as clustering, dimensionality reduction, and classification. In this paper, we focus on trying to solve the most common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Gustavo A Valencia-Zapata , Daniel Mejia , Gerhard Klimeck , Michael Zentner , Okan Ersoy

In mixture model-based clustering applications, it is common to fit several models from a family and report clustering results from only the `best' one. In such circumstances, selection of this best model is achieved using a model selection…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Yuhong Wei , Paul D. McNicholas

In this study, we propose a robust mixture regression procedure based on the skew t distribution to model heavy-tailed and/or skewed errors in a mixture regression setting. Using the scale mixture representation of the skew t distribution,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Fatma Zehra Doğru , Olcay Arslan

A novel family of twelve mixture models with random covariates, nested in the linear $t$ cluster-weighted model (CWM), is introduced for model-based clustering. The linear $t$ CWM was recently presented as a robust alternative to the better…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-10 Salvatore Ingrassia , Simona C. Minotti , Antonio Punzo

Skew-Gaussian processes (SkewGPs) extend the multivariate Unified Skew-Normal distributions over finite dimensional vectors to distribution over functions. SkewGPs are more general and flexible than Gaussian processes, as SkewGPs may also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-28 Alessio Benavoli , Dario Azzimonti , Dario Piga

Mixtures of matrix Gaussian distributions provide a probabilistic framework for clustering continuous matrix-variate data, which are becoming increasingly prevalent in various fields. Despite its widespread adoption and successful…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-21 Andrea Cappozzo , Alessandro Casa , Michael Fop

In this article, we propose two classes of semiparametric mixture regression models with single-index for model based clustering. Unlike many semiparametric/nonparametric mixture regression models that can only be applied to low dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-15 Sijia Xiang , Weixin Yao

We construct a novel class of stochastic blockmodels using Bayesian nonparametric mixtures. These model allows us to jointly estimate the structure of multiple networks and explicitly compare the community structures underlying them, while…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-17 Perla Reyes , Abel Rodriguez

We introduce a mixture of generalized hyperbolic distributions as an alternative to the ubiquitous mixture of Gaussian distributions as well as their near relatives of which the mixture of multivariate t and skew-t distributions are…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Ryan P. Browne , Paul D. McNicholas

In this paper, different strands of literature are combined in order to obtain algorithms for semi-parametric estimation of discrete choice models that include the modelling of unobserved heterogeneity by using mixing distributions for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-12 Dietmar Bauer , Sebastian Büscher , Manuel Batram

A family of parsimonious ultrametric mixture models with the Manly transformation is developed for clustering high-dimensional and asymmetric data. Advances in Gaussian mixture modeling sufficiently handle high-dimensional data but struggle…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-16 Alexa A. Sochaniwsky , Paul D. McNicholas

Employing nonparametric methods for density estimation has become routine in Bayesian statistical practice. Models based on discrete nonparametric priors such as Dirichlet Process Mixture (DPM) models are very attractive choices due to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-03 J. J. Quinlan , F. A. Quintana , G. L. Page