Hi, you can also look at the function normalmix.init in the mixtools package.
Tatiana Tatiana Benaglia Ph.D. Candidate Department of Statistics Penn State University On Feb 23, 2007, at 12:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem of estimating a mixture of two normal > distributions. I > need to find the starting points automatically, since this is a > part of a > larger piece of image processing code. > > I found the mix2normal1 function in VGAM package that mentions a > method of > finding starting values for mu1 and mu2 but refers the reader to a > book by > Everitt and Hand. Unfortunately, I do not have an easy access to this > book. Could anybody point me to a description of the method that I > could > use? > > Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, > > Andy > > __________________________________ > Andy Jaworski > 518-1-01 > Process Laboratory > 3M Corporate Research Laboratory > ----- > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (651) 733-6092 > Fax: (651) 736-3122 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
