Robust mixture modelling using sub-Gaussian stable distribution

01/24/2017
by   Mahdi Teimouri, et al.
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Heavy-tailed distributions are widely used in robust mixture modelling due to possessing thick tails. As a computationally tractable subclass of the stable distributions, sub-Gaussian α-stable distribution received much interest in the literature. Here, we introduce a type of expectation maximization algorithm that estimates parameters of a mixture of sub-Gaussian stable distributions. A comparative study, in the presence of some well-known mixture models, is performed to show the robustness and performance of the mixture of sub-Gaussian α-stable distributions for modelling, simulated, synthetic, and real data.

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