A mixture model approach for clustering longitudinal data is introduced. The approach, which is based on mixtures of multivariate power exponential distributions, allows for varying tail-weight and peakedness in data. In the longitudinal setting, this corresponds to more or less concentration around the most central time course in a component. The models utilize a modified Cholesky decomposition of the component scale matrices and the associated maximum likelihood estimators are derived via a generalized expectation-maximization algorithm. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/20406 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Patel, Nidhi |
| Contributors | McNicholas, Paul, Statistics |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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