Chapter 9

Mixtures of Factor Analysers for the Analysis of High‐Dimensional Data

Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Department of Mathematics and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St Lucia Australia

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Jangsun Baek

Department of Statistics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea

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Suren I. Rathnayake

Department of Mathematics and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St Lucia Australia

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First published: 24 April 2011
Citations: 2
Book Series:Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Single‐factor analysis model

  • Mixtures of factor analysers

  • Mixtures of common factor analysers (MCFA)

  • Some related approaches

  • Fitting of factor‐analytic models

  • Choice of the number of factors q

  • Example

  • Low‐dimensional plots via MCFA approach

  • Multivariate t‐factor analysers

  • Discussion

  • Appendix

  • References

Number of times cited according to CrossRef: 2

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  • Rejoinder to the discussion of “Model-based clustering and classification with non-normal mixture distributions”, Statistical Methods & Applications, 10.1007/s10260-013-0249-0, 22, 4, (473-479), (2013).

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