Merging Mixture Components for Cell Population Identification in Flow Cytometry

Table 1

Distributional assumptions, data transformation, and model selection criteria for the five clustering models compared in this study.

Distribution	Transformation	Model selection criteria	Model name
Multivariate-𝑡	Box-Cox	BIC	flowClustBIC
	Box-Cox	ICL	flowClustICL
	Box-Cox	Fixed K	flowClustK
	Box-Cox	BIC, entropy	flowMerge
	Box-Cox	BIC, entropy, fixed K	flowMergeK
Gaussian	None	BIC	GMMBIC
	None	ICL	GMMICL
	None	fixed K	GMMK