Re: [R] mixture of 2 normals - starting values

2007-02-23 Thread Tatiana Benaglia
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

Re: [R] mixture of 2 normals - starting values

2007-02-23 Thread Earl F. Glynn
If you don't have too much noise, the peaks in the derivative curves can be used: See: http://research.stowers-institute.org/efg/R/Statistics/MixturesOfDistributions/index.htm efg Earl F. Glynn Scientific Programmer Stowers Institute for Medical Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

[R] mixture of 2 normals - starting values

2007-02-22 Thread apjaworski
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

Re: [R] mixture of 2 normals - starting values

2007-02-22 Thread Xiaohui
Hi, Try MCLUST package. You can use the hierarchical clustering to find the starting values of your EM. Xiaohui [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