Subedi, Sanjeena; McNicholas, Paul - In: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 8 (2014) 2, pp. 167-193
Parameter estimation for model-based clustering using a finite mixture of normal inverse Gaussian (NIG) distributions is achieved through variational Bayes approximations. Univariate NIG mixtures and multivariate NIG mixtures are considered. The use of variational Bayes approximations here is a...