EMclustN {mclust} | R Documentation

## BIC for Model-Based Clustering with Poisson Noise

### Description

BIC for EM initialized by hierarchical clustering for parameterized Gaussian mixture models with Poisson noise.

### Usage

    EMclustN(data, G, emModelNames, noise, hcPairs, eps, tol, itmax,
             equalPro, warnSingular=FALSE, Vinv, ...)

### Arguments

`data` | A numeric vector, matrix, or data frame of observations. Categorical variables are not allowed. If a matrix or data frame, rows correspond to observations and columns correspond to variables.
`G` | An integer vector specifying the numbers of MVN (Gaussian) mixture components (clusters) for which the BIC is to be calculated. The default is `0:9` where `0` indicates only a noise component.
`emModelNames` | A vector of character strings indicating the models to be fitted in the EM phase of clustering. Possible models: "E" for spherical, equal variance (one-dimensional) "V" for spherical, variable variance (one-dimensional) "EII": spherical, equal volume "VII": spherical, unequal volume "EEI": diagonal, equal volume, equal shape "VEI": diagonal, varying volume, equal shape "EVI": diagonal, equal volume, varying shape "VVI": diagonal, varying volume, varying shape "EEE": ellipsoidal, equal volume, shape, and orientation "EEV": ellipsoidal, equal volume and equal shape "VEV": ellipsoidal, equal shape "VVV": ellipsoidal, varying volume, shape, and orientation The default is `.Mclust\$emModelNames`.
`noise` | A logical or numeric vector indicating whether or not observations are initially estimated to noise in the data. If there is no noise `EMclust` should be use rather than `EMclustN`.
`hcPairs` | A matrix of merge pairs for hierarchical clustering such as produced by function `hc`. The default is to compute a hierarchical clustering tree by applying function `hc` with `modelName = .Mclust\$hcModelName[1]` to univariate data and `modelName = .Mclust\$hcModelName[2]` to multivariate data or a subset as indicated by the `subset` argument. The hierarchical clustering results are used as starting values for EM.
`eps` | A scalar tolerance for deciding when to terminate computations due to computational singularity in covariances. Smaller values of `eps` allow computations to proceed nearer to singularity. The default is `.Mclust\$eps`.
`tol` | A scalar tolerance for relative convergence of the loglikelihood. The default is `.Mclust\$tol`.
`itmax` | An integer limit on the number of EM iterations. The default is `.Mclust\$itmax`.
`equalPro` | Logical variable indicating whether or not the mixing proportions are equal in the model. The default is `.Mclust\$equalPro`.
`Vinv` | An estimate of the reciprocal hypervolume of the data region. The default is determined by applying function `hypvol` to the data.
`warnSingular` | A logical value indicating whether or not a warning should be issued whenever a singularity is encountered. The default is `warnSingular=FALSE`.
`...` | Provided to allow lists with elements other than the arguments can be passed in indirect or list calls with `do.call`.

### Value

Bayesian Information Criterion for the specified mixture models numbers of clusters. Auxiliary information returned as attributes.

### References

C. Fraley and A. E. Raftery (2002a). Model-based clustering, discriminant analysis, and density estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association 97:611-631. See http://www.stat.washington.edu/mclust.

C. Fraley and A. E. Raftery (2002b). MCLUST:Software for model-based clustering, density estimation and discriminant analysis. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, University of Washington. See http://www.stat.washington.edu/mclust.

### See Also

`summary.EMclustN`, `EMclust`, `hc`, `me`, `mclustOptions`

### Examples

    data(iris)
    irisMatrix <- as.matrix(iris[,1:4])
    irisClass <- iris[,5]

    b <- apply( irisMatrix, 2, range)
    n <- 450
    set.seed(0)
    poissonNoise <- apply(b, 2, function(x, n=n)
                          runif(n, min = x[1]-0.1, max = x[2]+.1), n = n)
    set.seed(0)
    noiseInit <- sample(c(TRUE,FALSE),size=150+450,replace=TRUE,prob=c(3,1))
    Bic <-  EMclustN(data=rbind(irisMatrix, poissonNoise), noise = noiseInit)
    Bic
    plot(Bic)

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