There were some commands to do normal mixtures (which you could try to
-findit-), but Fraley & Raftery's approach is deeply Bayesian, which
does not mesh up terribly well with Stata's concepts. I would guess
they had their implementation in Splus, as there were no R around back
in 1990s, but they may have ported in to R since then.
On 8/24/07, Lina Jonsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I know that there exist a function called mclust that works with S-PLUS for Model-based Cluster Analysis according to an article by Fraley and Raftery from 1998. Sense I�m no expert when it comes to clustering, it�s hard for me to be more specific. But in the article model-based cluster analysis is described as "In model-based cluster analysis data are represented by a mixture model in which each component corresponds to a different cluster. Models with varying geomteric properties are obtained through Gaussian compnents with different parameterixations and cross-cluster constraints..." I hope this gives you a clue to what I`m after. I appreciate all the help and suggestions I can get.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Lina Jonsson
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Fr�n: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] F�r Marcello Pagano
> > Skickat: den 24 augusti 2007 14:25
> > Till: [email protected]
> > �mne: Re: st: Model-based Clustering
> >
> > Can you be a little more specific please, Lina?
> > Clustering can have about three different meanings in a
> > statistical context, and that's just off the top of my head,
> > that are quite different.
> >
> > m.p.
> >
> > Lina Jonsson wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > I would like to do model-based clustering so I wonder if
> > there are any
> > > commands for doing this i Stata.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > >
> > > Lina Jonsson
> > >
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