Constrained and Parsimonious Mixture Models for Multivariate Circular Data
摘要
Torus data are multivariate circular observations that arise as measurements on a periodic scale and are often recorded as angles or directions. In this paper, a model based clustering technique for torus data is built on the mclust approach. Therefore, covariance constraints are imposed on the completely general heterogeneous clustering model allowing a flexible and general framework to clustering torus data. The methodology is based on unwrapping the torus data to linear data.