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most citedClustering and Classification via Cluster-Weighted Factor Analyzers

53 citations · 120 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

stat.ME2026

Latent-Class Poisson-Lognormal Mixed Models for Clustering Multivariate Longitudinal Count Data

Pengqi Liu, Utkarsh J. Dang, Sanjeena Subedi

Multivariate longitudinal count data arise in biological studies, where responses may be over-dispersed, correlated within subjects and over time, measured at irregular times, and…

stat.ME2026

Mixtures of spatial factor analyzers for tensor-variate data

Hanzhang Lu, Keiran Malott, Kirsty Milligan +10

A mixture of spatial factor analyzers (MSFA) is introduced to address the challenges of clustering high-dimensional spatial data. The proposed framework utilizes the given coordina…

stat.ME2026

Spatial Covariance Constraints for Gaussian Mixture Models

Hanzhang Lu, Keiran Malott, Venkat Suprabath Bitra +11

Although extensive research exists in spatial modeling, few studies have addressed finite mixture model-based clustering methods for spatial data. Finite mixture models, especially…

stat.ME2025

Model-based bi-clustering using multivariate Poisson-lognormal with general block-diagonal covariance matrix and its applications

Caitlin Kral, Evan Chance, Ryan Browne +1

While several Gaussian mixture models-based biclustering approaches currently exist in the literature for continuous data, approaches to handle discrete data have not been well res…

stat.ME2024

Extending Cluster-Weighted Factor Analyzers for multivariate prediction and high-dimensional interpretability

Xiaoke Qin, Francesca Martella, Sanjeena Subedi

Cluster-weighted factor analyzers (CWFA) are a versatile class of mixture models designed to estimate the joint distribution of a random vector that includes a response variable al…

stat.ME2023

Finite Mixtures of Multivariate Poisson-Log Normal Factor Analyzers for Clustering Count Data

Andrea Payne, Anjali Silva, Steven J. Rothstein +2

A mixture of multivariate Poisson-log normal factor analyzers is introduced by imposing constraints on the covariance matrix, which resulted in flexible models for clustering purpo…

stat.ME2023★ 1 cited

Tackling the infinite likelihood problem when fitting mixtures of shifted asymmetric Laplace distributions

Yuan Fang, Brian C. Franczak, Sanjeena Subedi

Mixtures of shifted asymmetric Laplace distributions were introduced as a tool for model-based clustering that allowed for the direct parameterization of skewness in addition to lo…

stat.CO2023

Estimation of Gaussian Bi-Clusters with General Block-Diagonal Covariance Matrix and Applications

Anastasiia Livochka, Ryan Browne, Sanjeena Subedi

Bi-clustering is a technique that allows for the simultaneous clustering of observations and features in a dataset. This technique is often used in bioinformatics, text mining, and…

stat.ME2021

Logistic Normal Multinomial Factor Analyzers for Clustering Microbiome Data

Wangshu Tu, Sanjeena Subedi

The human microbiome plays an important role in human health and disease status. Next generating sequencing technologies allow for quantifying the composition of the human microbio…

stat.ME2020★ 4 cited

Clustering microbiome data using mixtures of logistic normal multinomial models

Yuan Fang, Sanjeena Subedi

Discrete data such as counts of microbiome taxa resulting from next-generation sequencing are routinely encountered in bioinformatics. Taxa count data in microbiome studies are typ…

stat.ME2020

A Family of Mixture Models for Biclustering

Wangshu Tu, Sanjeena Subedi

Biclustering is used for simultaneous clustering of the observations and variables when there is no group structure known \textit{a priori}. It is being increasingly used in bioinf…

stat.ME2020★ 1 cited

Infinite mixtures of multivariate normal-inverse Gaussian distributions for clustering of skewed data

Yuan Fang, Dimitris Karlis, Sanjeena Subedi

Mixtures of multivariate normal inverse Gaussian (MNIG) distributions can be used to cluster data that exhibit features such as skewness and heavy tails. However, for cluster analy…

stat.CO2020★ 2 cited

A Bayesian approach for clustering skewed data using mixtures of multivariate normal-inverse Gaussian distributions

Yuan Fang, Dimitris Karlis, Sanjeena Subedi

Non-Gaussian mixture models are gaining increasing attention for mixture model-based clustering particularly when dealing with data that exhibit features such as skewness and heavy…

stat.CO2020

A parsimonious family of multivariate Poisson-lognormal distributions for clustering multivariate count data

Sanjeena Subedi, Ryan Browne

Multivariate count data are commonly encountered through high-throughput sequencing technologies in bioinformatics, text mining, or in sports analytics. Although the Poisson distri…

stat.ME2018

Finite mixtures of matrix-variate Poisson-log normal distributions for three-way count data

Anjali Silva, Steven J. Rothstein, Paul D. McNicholas +2

Three-way data structures, characterized by three entities, the units, the variables and the occasions, are frequent in biological studies. In RNA sequencing, three-way data struct…

stat.ME2017

A Multivariate Poisson-Log Normal Mixture Model for Clustering Transcriptome Sequencing Data

Anjali Silva, Steven J. Rothstein, Paul D. McNicholas +1

High-dimensional data of discrete and skewed nature is commonly encountered in high-throughput sequencing studies. Analyzing the network itself or the interplay between genes in th…

stat.ME2013★ 53 cited

Variational Bayes Approximations for Clustering via Mixtures of Normal Inverse Gaussian Distributions

Sanjeena Subedi, Paul D. McNicholas

Parameter estimation for model-based clustering using a finite mixture of normal inverse Gaussian (NIG) distributions is achieved through variational Bayes approximations. Univaria…

stat.CO2013★ 6 cited

Constrained Optimization for a Subset of the Gaussian Parsimonious Clustering Models

Ryan P. Browne, Sanjeena Subedi, Paul McNicholas

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is an iterative method for finding maximum likelihood estimates when data are incomplete or are treated as being incomplete. The EM algo…

stat.ME2013

A Variational Approximations-DIC Rubric for Parameter Estimation and Mixture Model Selection Within a Family Setting

Sanjeena Subedi, Paul D. McNicholas

Mixture model-based clustering has become an increasingly popular data analysis technique since its introduction over fifty years ago, and is now commonly utilized within a family…

stat.ME2012★ 53 cited

Clustering and Classification via Cluster-Weighted Factor Analyzers

Sanjeena Subedi, Antonio Punzo, Salvatore Ingrassia +1

In model-based clustering and classification, the cluster-weighted model constitutes a convenient approach when the random vector of interest constitutes a response variable Y and…