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Examining the effect of initialization strategies on the performance of Gaussian mixture modeling

Emilie Shireman1, Douglas Steinley2, Michael J Brusco3

  • 1University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. emr2p7@mail.missouri.edu.

Behavior Research Methods
|January 2, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Algorithm initializationEM algorithmMixture modeling

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