Multivariate Skew t Mixture Models: Applications to Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting Data

Authors:
Kui Wang;Shu-Kay Ng;Geoffrey J. McLachlan
Affiliations:
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Venue:
DICTA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In many applied problems in the context of pattern recognition, the data often involve highly asymmetric observations. Normal mixture models tend to overfit when additional components are included to capture the skewness of the data. Increased number of pseudo-components could lead to difficulties and inefficiencies in computations. Also, the contours of the fitted mixture components may be distorted. In this paper, we propose to adopt mixtures of multivariate skew t distributions to handle highly asymmetric data. The EM algorithm is used to compute the maximum likelihood estimates of model parameters. The method is illustrated using a flurorescence-activated cell sorting data.