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2012-09-01
Una comparación empírica de algunos métodos de inicialización EM y criterios de selección de modelos para mezclas de distribuciones normales asimetricas
An Empirical Comparison of EM Initialization Methods and Model Choice Criteria for Mixtures of Skew-Normal Distributions
Keywords:
algoritmo EM, distribuciones asimétricas, mezcla de distribuciones (es)EM algorithm, Mixture of distributions, Skewed distributions (en)
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El presente artículo muestra un estudio de simulación que evalúa el desempeño
del algoritmo EM utilizado para determinar estimaciones por máxima
verosimilitud de los parámetros de la mezcla finita de distribuciones normales
asimétricas. Diferentes métodos de inicialización, así como el número
de interacciones necesarias para establecer una regla de parada especificada
y algunos criterios de selección del modelo para permitir estimar el número apropiado de componentes de la mezcla han sido considerados. Los resultados
indican que el algoritmo genera estimaciones razonables cuando los
valores iniciales son obtenidos mediante el método de momentos, que junto
con los criterios AIC, BIC, ICL o EDC constituyen una eficaz alternativa en
la estimación del número de componentes de la mezcla. Resultados insatisfactorios
se verificaron al estimar los parámetros de simetría, principalmente
seleccionando un tamaño pequeño para la muestra, y en los casos conocidamente
problemáticos en los cuales los componentes de la mezcla están
suficientemente separados.
We investigate, via simulation study, the performance of the EM algorithm
for maximum likelihood estimation in finite mixtures of skew-normal
distributions with component specific parameters. The study takes into account
the initialization method, the number of iterations needed to attain a
fixed stopping rule and the ability of some classical model choice criteria to
estimate the correct number of mixture components. The results show that
the algorithm produces quite reasonable estimates when using the method
of moments to obtain the starting points and that, combining them with the
AIC, BIC, ICL or EDC criteria, represents a good alternative to estimate the
number of components of the mixture. Exceptions occur in the estimation
of the skewness parameters, notably when the sample size is relatively small,
and in some classical problematic cases, as when the mixture components
are poorly separated.
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Pereira, J. R., Marques, L. A., & da Costa, J. M. (2012). An Empirical Comparison of EM Initialization Methods and Model Choice Criteria for Mixtures of Skew-Normal Distributions. Revista Colombiana De Estadística, 35(3), 455-476. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/estad/article/view/36881
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