In this work, a novel probability distribution is proposed to model sparse directional data. The Directional Laplacian Distribution (DLD) is a hybrid between the linear Laplacian d...
: The traditional latent class analysis (LCA) uses a mixture model with binary responses on each subject that are independent conditional on cluster membership. However, in many pr...
Efficient probability density function estimation is of primary interest in statistics. A popular approach for achieving this is the use of finite Gaussian mixture models. Based on...
We propose a novel Bayesian learning framework of hierarchical mixture model by incorporating prior hierarchical knowledge into concept representations of multi-level concept struc...
A method is proposed for semiparametric estimation where parametric and nonparametric criteria are exploited in density estimation and unsupervised learning. This is accomplished ...