Multivariate mixtures of normals with unknown number of components

Authors:
Petros Dellaportas;Ioulia Papageorgiou
Affiliations:
Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece;Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Venue:
Statistics and Computing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We present full Bayesian analysis of finite mixtures of multivariate normals with unknown number of components. We adopt reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo and we construct, in a manner similar to that of Richardson and Green (1997), split and merge moves that produce good mixing of the Markov chains. The split moves are constructed on the space of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the current covariance matrix so that the proposed covariance matrices are positive definite. Our proposed methodology has applications in classification and discrimination as well as heterogeneity modelling. We test our algorithm with real and simulated data.