International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (Sep 2021)

Fitting a Gaussian Mixture Model Through the Gini Index

  • López-Lobato Adriana Laura,
  • Avendaño-Garrido Martha Lorena

DOI
https://doi.org/10.34768/amcs-2021-0033
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 3
pp. 487 – 500

Abstract

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A linear combination of Gaussian components is known as a Gaussian mixture model. It is widely used in data mining and pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the parameters of the density function given by a Gaussian mixture model. Our proposal is based on the Gini index, a methodology to measure the inequality degree between two probability distributions, and consists in minimizing the Gini index between an empirical distribution for the data and a Gaussian mixture model. We will show several simulated examples and real data examples, observing some of the properties of the proposed method.

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