Parsimonious cluster-weighted models using multivariate skew normal distribution†
Seunghoon Paik1 · Sangkon Oh2 · Byungtae Seo3
123Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University
Correspondence to: † The research of Byungtae Seo is supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (NRF-2022R1A2C1006462).
1 Master, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 03063, Korea.
2 Ph. D candidate, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 03063, Korea. E-mail: ohsangkon@hanmail.net
3 Professor, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, 25-2, Sungkyunkwan-Ro, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 03063, Korea.
1 Master, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 03063, Korea.
2 Ph. D candidate, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 03063, Korea. E-mail: ohsangkon@hanmail.net
3 Professor, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, 25-2, Sungkyunkwan-Ro, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 03063, Korea.
Received February 8, 2023; Revised February 28, 2023; Accepted March 2, 2023.
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- Abstract
- Cluster-weighted model (CWM) is a probability model containing response variables, covariates and latent variables, which can be a useful tool to cluster data based on different functional relationships. In CWM, the covariate distribution is usually assumed to be a multivariate normal distribution. However, if the true covariate distribution deviates from the normal distribution, CWM can produce unreliable clustering results. To reduce such problems, in this study, we propose a model that uses multivariate skew normal distribution for the covariate distribution. In addition, we propose a way to reduce the number of model parameters by giving some constraints to the covariance matrix. The feasible expectation and maximization algorithm to estimate parameters is provided, and the performance of the proposed model is demonstrated through simulation studies and real data analysis.
- Keywords : Cluster-weighted models, clustering analysis, parsimonious models, mixture models, multivariate skew normal distribution.
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