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The mixture of factor analyzers (MFA) model provides a powerful tool for analyzing high-dimensional data as it can reduce the number of free parameters through its factor-analytic representation of the component covariance matrices. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-07-09 Tsung-I Lin , Geoffrey J. McLachlan , Sharon X. Lee

In the past few years, there have been a number of proposals for generalizing the factor analysis (FA) model and its mixture version (known as mixtures of factor analyzers (MFA)) using non-normal and asymmetric distributions. These models…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-11-21 Sharon X. Lee , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Mixture of factor analyzer (MFA) model is an efficient model for the analysis of high dimensional data through which the factor-analyzer technique based on the covariance matrices reducing the number of free parameters. The model also…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-05 Hamid Reza Safaeyan , Karim Zare , Mohamad R. Mahmoudi , Amir Mosavi

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

A mixture of common skew-t factor analyzers model is introduced for model-based clustering of high-dimensional data. By assuming common component factor loadings, this model allows clustering to be performed in the presence of a large…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-05 Paula M. Murray , Paul D. McNicholas , Ryan P. Browne

In this paper, we introduce a mixture of skew-t factor analyzers as well as a family of mixture models based thereon. The mixture of skew-t distributions model that we use arises as a limiting case of the mixture of generalized hyperbolic…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-05 Paula M. Murray , Ryan P. Browne , Paul D. McNicholas

The mixture of factor analyzers (MFA) model is a famous mixture model-based approach for unsupervised learning with high-dimensional data. It can be useful, inter alia, in situations where the data dimensionality far exceeds the number of…

Computation · Statistics 2018-11-13 Yuhong Wei , Yang Tang , Paul D. McNicholas

Mixtures of factor analysers (MFA) models represent a popular tool for finding structure in data, particularly high-dimensional data. While in most applications the number of clusters, and especially the number of latent factors within…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-17 Margarita Grushanina , Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter

This paper develops a novel hybrid approach for estimating the mixture model of $t$-factor analyzers (MtFA) that employs multivariate $t$-distribution and factor model to cluster and characterize grouped data. The traditional estimation…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-06 Kazeem Kareem , Fan Dai

A mixture of factor analyzers is a semi-parametric density estimator that generalizes the well-known mixtures of Gaussians model by allowing each Gaussian in the mixture to be represented in a different lower-dimensional manifold. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-23 Heysem Kaya , Albert Ali Salah

The mixture of factor analyzers model was first introduced over 20 years ago and, in the meantime, has been extended to several non-Gaussian analogues. In general, these analogues account for situations with heavy tailed and/or skewed…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-30 Paula M. Murray , Ryan P. Browne , Paul D. McNicholas

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

Model-based clustering imposes a finite mixture modelling structure on data for clustering. Finite mixture models assume that the population is a convex combination of a finite number of densities, the distribution within each population is…

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

Finite mixture of skew distributions have emerged as an effective tool in modelling heterogeneous data with asymmetric features. With various proposals appearing rapidly in the recent years, which are similar but not identical, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-29 Sharon X. Lee , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) are a standard tool in data analysis. However, they face problems when applied to high-dimensional data (e.g., images) due to the size of the required full covariance matrices (CMs), whereas the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Alexander Gepperth

Handling missing data is a major challenge in model-based clustering, especially when the data exhibit skewness and heavy tails. We address this by extending the finite mixture of scale mixtures of multivariate skew-normal (FMSMSN) family…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-29 Jason Pillay , Cristina Tortora , Antonio Punzo , Andriette Bekker

A mixture of multivariate Poisson-log normal factor analyzers is introduced by imposing constraints on the covariance matrix, which resulted in flexible models for clustering purposes. In particular, a class of eight parsimonious mixture…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-15 Andrea Payne , Anjali Silva , Steven J. Rothstein , Paul D. McNicholas , Sanjeena Subedi

In this paper, a new mixture family of multivariate normal distributions, formed by mixing multivariate normal distribution and skewed distribution, is constructed. Some properties of this family, such as characteristic function, moment…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-24 Me'raj Abdi , Mohsen Madadi , N. Balakrishnan , Ahad Jamalizadeh

Cluster-weighted factor analyzers (CWFA) are a versatile class of mixture models designed to estimate the joint distribution of a random vector that includes a response variable along with a set of explanatory variables. They are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-07 Xiaoke Qin , Francesca Martella , Sanjeena Subedi

This is an extended version of the paper Lee and McLachlan (2014b) with simulations and applications added. This paper introduces a finite mixture of canonical fundamental skew t (CFUST) distributions for a model-based approach to…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-06 Sharon X. Lee , Geoffrey J. McLachlan
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