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Finite mixture modelling provides a framework for cluster analysis based on parsimonious Gaussian mixture models. Variable or feature selection is of particular importance in situations where only a subset of the available variables provide…

Computation · Statistics 2014-11-04 Luca Scrucca , Adrian E. Raftery

Predictive recursion (PR) is a fast algorithm for nonparametric estimation of a mixing density, with connections to sequential Bayesian updating under a Dirichlet process prior and rigorous frequentist consistency guarantees. Extending PR…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-05 Jonathan Lin , Surya Tokdar

Exemplar-based clustering methods have been shown to produce state-of-the-art results on a number of synthetic and real-world clustering problems. They are appealing because they offer computational benefits over latent-mean models and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Daniel Tarlow , Richard S. Zemel , Brendan J. Frey

This article introduces the R package hermiter which facilitates estimation of univariate and bivariate probability density functions and cumulative distribution functions along with full quantile functions (univariate) and nonparametric…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-04 Michael Stephanou , Melvin Varughese

A common challenge in data analysis is uncovering relationships between predictors and responses in problems involving large numbers of both. When the number of predictors and responses is limited, visual approaches are particularly…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-29 Gabriel McCoy , German Valencia , Ursula Laa

We introduce a new nonlinear model for classification, in which we model the joint distribution of response variable, y, and covariates, x, non-parametrically using Dirichlet process mixtures. We keep the relationship between y and x linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Babak Shahbaba , Radford M. Neal

Most of applied statistics involves regression analysis of data. This paper presents a stand-alone and menu-driven software package, Bayesian Regression: Nonparametric and Parametric Models. Currently, this package gives the user a choice…

Computation · Statistics 2015-07-15 George Karabatsos

Recently, the Bayesian nonparametric approach in survival studies attracts much more attentions. Because of multi modality in survival data, the mixture models are very common in this field. One of the famous priors on Bayesian…

Applications · Statistics 2016-12-26 S. B. Hajjar , S. Khazaei

The R package spikeSlabGAM implements Bayesian variable selection, model choice, and regularized estimation in (geo-)additive mixed models for Gaussian, binomial, and Poisson responses. Its purpose is to (1) choose an appropriate subset of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-19 Fabian Scheipl

Prior distributions play a crucial role in Bayesian approaches to clustering. Two commonly-used prior distributions are the Dirichlet and Pitman-Yor processes. In this paper, we investigate the predictive probabilities that underlie these…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-10-18 Hanna M. Wallach , Shane T. Jensen , Lee Dicker , Katherine A. Heller

The item response model in latent space (LSIRM; Jeon et al., 2021) uncovers unobserved interactions between respondents and items in the item response data by embedding both in a shared latent metric space. The R package lsirm12pl…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-11 Dongyoung Go , Gwanghee Kim , Jina Park , Junyong Park , Minjeong Jeon , Ick Hoon Jin

The exponential growth of complex data demands fully automatic clustering. Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) provide uncertainty-aware grouping but often require expertise to specify hyperparameters, e.g., component count and covariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Tingshan Liu , Thomas L. Athey , Benjamin D. Pedigo , Joshua T. Vogelstein

Motivation: With the development of droplet based systems, massive single cell transcriptome data has become available, which enables analysis of cellular and molecular processes at single cell resolution and is instrumental to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Tiehang Duan , José P. Pinto , Xiaohui Xie

In a mixture of linear regression model, the regression coefficients are treated as random vectors that may follow either a continuous or discrete distribution. We propose two Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithms to estimate this prior…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-17 Andrew Welbaum , Wanli Qiao

We describe the \proglang{R} package \pkg{glmmrBase} and an extension \pkg{glmmrOptim}. \pkg{glmmrBase} provides a flexible approach to specifying, fitting, and analysing generalised linear mixed models. We use an object-orientated class…

Computation · Statistics 2024-03-15 Samuel I. Watson

Predictive recursion is an accurate and computationally efficient algorithm for nonparametric estimation of mixing densities in mixture models. In semiparametric mixture models, however, the algorithm fails to account for any uncertainty in…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-19 Ryan Martin , Surya T. Tokdar

Finite mixture models are flexible methods that are commonly used for model-based clustering. A recent focus in the model-based clustering literature is to highlight the difference between the number of components in a mixture model and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-03 Garritt L. Page , Massimo Ventrucci , Maria Franco-Villoria

Dirichlet process mixture model (DPMM) is a popular Bayesian nonparametric model. In this paper, we apply this model to weighted data and then estimate the un-weighted distribution from the corresponding weighted distribution using the…

Computation · Statistics 2018-12-12 Soghra Bohlourihajjar , Soleiman Khazaei

In microbiome studies, it is often of great interest to identify clusters or partitions of microbiome profiles within a study population and to characterize the distinctive attributes of each resulting microbial community. While raw counts…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-18 Zhongmao Liu , Xiaohui Yin , Yanjiao Zhou , Gen Li , Kun Chen

Practical tools for clustering streaming data must be fast enough to handle the arrival rate of the observations. Typically, they also must adapt on the fly to possible lack of stationarity; i.e., the data statistics may be time-dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Or Dinari , Oren Freifeld