FD.clusterdistances: Flexible Dirichlet Cluster Distances

In FlexDir: Tools to Work with the Flexible Dirichlet Distribution

Description

Returns a measure of symmetrized Kullback-Leibler distance between mixture component densities of a fitted Flexible Dirichlet distribution.

Usage

FD.clusterdistances(x)

Arguments

x	an object of class FDfitted, usually the result of FD.estimation.

References

Ongaro, A. and Migliorati, S. (2013) A generalization of the Dirichlet distribution. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 114, 412–426.

Migliorati, S., Ongaro, A. and Monti, G. S. (2016) A structured Dirichlet mixture model for compositional data: inferential and applicative issues. Statistics and Computing, doi:10.1007/s11222-016-9665-y.

See Also

FD.estimation, FD.barycenters, FD.moments

Examples

data <- FD.generate(n=20,a=c(12,7,15),p=c(0.3,0.4,0.3),t=8)
data
results <- FD.estimation(data, normalize=TRUE,iter.initial.SEM = 5,iter.final.EM = 10)
results
FD.clusterdistances(results)

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