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MCLUST Version 3 for R: Normal Mixture Modeling and Model-Based Clustering †

@inproceedings{Fraley2007MCLUSTV3,
  title={MCLUST Version 3 for R: Normal Mixture Modeling and Model-Based Clustering †},
  author={Chris Fraley and Adrian E. Raftery},
  year={2007}
}
MCLUST is a contributed R package for normal mixture modeling and model-based clustering. It provides functions for parameter estimation via the EM algorithm for normal mixture models with a variety of covariance structures, and functions for simulation from these models. Also included are functions that combine model-based hierarchical clustering, EM for mixture estimation and the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) in comprehensive strategies for clustering, density estimation and… 
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