Poisson mixture distribution analysis for North Carolina SIDS counts using information criteria

Mixture distribution analysis provides us with a tool for identifying unlabeled clusters that naturally arise in a data set.  In this paper, we demonstrate how to use the information criteria AIC and BIC to choose the optimal number of clusters for a given set of univariate Poisson data.  We give an...

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Main Author: Tyler Massaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2017-09-01
Series:Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health
Online Access:http://ebph.it/article/view/12550
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