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CHAPTER 7<br />

PROPERTIES OF MULTIVARIATE POISSON FINITE MIXTURE MODELS<br />

AND APPLICATIONS<br />

7.1 Introduction<br />

In this chapter, the properties <strong>of</strong> the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson finite mixture <strong>models</strong> are<br />

discussed. The importance <strong>of</strong> exploring the properties <strong>of</strong> the finite mixtures, the<br />

extension <strong>of</strong> these properties to the <strong>hidden</strong> Markov model and the application to other<br />

data sets are presented in the next sections.<br />

Even though there was more literature available on the <strong>analysis</strong> <strong>of</strong> count data, still only<br />

small portions <strong>of</strong> it deal with correlated counts. Holgate (1964) discussed the estimation<br />

problems <strong>of</strong> the bivariate Poisson distribution which does not support negative<br />

correlation between the two count variables. With the availability <strong>of</strong> powerful<br />

computing facilities Aitchison and Ho (1989) described how the <strong>multivariate</strong> lognormal<br />

mixture <strong>of</strong> the independent Poisson distributions could take into account the positive<br />

and negative correlation between the variables. A class <strong>of</strong> <strong>models</strong> proposed by Chib and<br />

Winkelmann (2001) can take into account the correlation among the counts. They<br />

developed an efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm to estimate the model<br />

parameters. However, <strong>for</strong> these <strong>models</strong>, the computational burden was quite large.<br />

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