logLik.Mclust: Log-Likelihood of a 'Mclust' object

In mclust: Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation

Log-Likelihood of a Mclust object

Description

Returns the log-likelihood for a 'Mclust' object.

Usage

  ## S3 method for class 'Mclust'
logLik(object, ...)

Arguments

object	an object of class 'Mclust' resulting from a call to Mclust.
...	further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Value

Returns an object of class 'logLik' with an element providing the maximized log-likelihood, and further arguments giving the number of (estimated) parameters in the model ("df") and the sample size ("nobs").

Author(s)

Luca Scrucca

See Also

Mclust.

Examples

irisMclust <- Mclust(iris[,1:4])
summary(irisMclust)
logLik(irisMclust)

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