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  Statistical inference with the Elliptical Gamma Distribution

Hosseini, R., Sra, S., Theis, L., & Bethge, M. (2016). Statistical inference with the Elliptical Gamma Distribution. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 101, 29-43.

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Hosseini, R, Author           
Sra, S, Author           
Theis, L1, Author           
Bethge, M1, Author           
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1Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: This paper studies mixture modeling using the Elliptical Gamma distribution (EGD)---a distribution that has parametrized tail and peak behaviors and offers richer modeling power than the multivariate Gaussian. First, we study maximum likelihood (ML) parameter estimation for a single EGD, a task that involves nontrivial conic optimization problems. We solve these problems by developing globally convergent fixed-point methods for them. Next, we consider fitting mixtures of EGDs, for which we first derive a closed-form expression for the KL-divergence between two EGDs and then use it in a ''split-and-merge'' expectation maximization algorithm. We demonstrate the ability of our proposed mixture modelling in modelling natural image patches.

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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 101 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 29 - 43 Identifier: DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2016.02.009