## Mixtures of general location model with factor analyzer covariance structure for clustering mixed type data.(English)Zbl 07480917

Summary: Cluster analysis is one of the most widely used method in statistical analyses, in which homogeneous subgroups are identified in a heterogeneous population. Due to the existence of the continuous and discrete mixed data in many applications, so far, some ordinary clustering methods such as, hierarchical methods, $$k$$-means and model-based methods have been extended for analysis of mixed data. However, in the available model-based clustering methods, by increasing the number of continuous variables, the number of parameters increases and identifying as well as fitting an appropriate model may be difficult. In this paper, to reduce the number of the parameters, for the model-based clustering mixed data of continuous (normal) and nominal data, a set of parsimonious models is introduced. Models in this set are extended, using the general location model approach, for modeling distribution of mixed variables and applying factor analyzer structure for covariance matrices. The ECM algorithm is used for estimating the parameters of these models. In order to show the performance of the proposed models for clustering, results from some simulation studies and analyzing two real data sets are presented.

### MSC:

 62Pxx Applications of statistics

### Software:

clusfind; kamila; pdfCluster; clustMD; ipred
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