Research Article

Gaussian Mixture Models Based on Principal Components and Applications

Table 10

Cancer incidence data: parameter estimates and BIC of the bivariate GMM (second technique) by taking cluster means as initial values of model means.

ValuesModel parameters
First componentSecond component

Parameter estimation0.237845.47040−1.2649670.6793211.12140.76216−1.70710.394750.255570.07398
Log-likelihood = −242.2075, BIC = 556.9627
Number of iterations: 30