Physics – Data Analysis – Statistics and Probability
Scientific paper
2007-05-16
Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
10 pages. This work will be presented at MaxEnt07: http://www.maxent07.org
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3039000
When modeling the distribution of a set of data by a mixture of Gaussians, there are two possibilities: i) the classical one is using a set of parameters which are the proportions, the means and the variances; ii) the second is to consider the proportions as the probabilities of a discrete valued hidden variable. In the first case a usual prior distribution for the proportions is the Dirichlet which accounts for the fact that they have to sum up to one. In the second case, to each data is associated a hidden variable for which we consider two possibilities: a) assuming those variables to be i.i.d. We show then that this scheme is equivalent to the classical mixture model with Dirichlet prior; b) assuming a Markovian structure. Then we choose the simplest markovian model which is the Potts distribution. As we will see this model is more appropriate for the case where the data represents the pixels of an image for which the hidden variables represent a segmentation of that image. The main object of this paper is to give some details on these models and different algorithms used for their simulation and the estimation of their parameters. Key Words: Mixture of Gaussians, Dirichlet, Potts, Classification, Segmentation.
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