Robust Asymmetric Clustering
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Contaminated mixture models are developed for model-based clustering of data with asymmetric clusters as well as spurious points, outliers, and/or noise. Specifically, we introduce a contaminated mixture of contaminated shifted asymmetric Laplace distributions and a contaminated mixture of contaminated skew-normal distributions. In each case, mixture components have a parameter controlling the proportion of bad points (i.e., spurious points, outliers, and/or noise) and one specifying the degree of contamination. A very important feature of our approaches is that these parameters do not have to be specified a priori. Expectation-conditional maximization algorithms are outlined for parameter estimation and the number of components is selected using the Bayesian information criterion. The performance of our approaches is illustrated on artificial and real data.
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