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CHAPTER 8<br />

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF MULTIVARIATE POISSON FINITE<br />

MIXTURE MODELS AND MULTIVARIATE POISSON HIDDEN MARKOV<br />

MODELS<br />

8.1 Introduction<br />

In this chapter, the computational efficiency <strong>of</strong> the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson finite mixture<br />

<strong>models</strong> and the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poissin <strong>hidden</strong> Markov <strong>models</strong> is discussed. Since the two<br />

sets <strong>of</strong> <strong>models</strong>: (a) the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson finite mixture model and (b) the <strong>multivariate</strong><br />

Poisson <strong>hidden</strong> Markov model are working well in the setting <strong>of</strong> finding the unknown<br />

number <strong>of</strong> components or states, it is interested to study about the computational<br />

efficiency <strong>of</strong> the <strong>models</strong>. Karlis and Xekalaki (1999) discussed the computational<br />

efficiency <strong>of</strong> the finite Poisson mixture <strong>models</strong> with two components <strong>for</strong> the maximum<br />

likelihood estimation via the EM algorithm.<br />

8.2 Calculation <strong>of</strong> computer time<br />

Five sets <strong>of</strong> the <strong>multivariate</strong> data are simulated with different sample sizes, namely n =<br />

50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000. As we discussed be<strong>for</strong>e in Chapter 6, 10 different sets <strong>of</strong><br />

parameter starting values were randomly selected over the range <strong>of</strong> data values and the<br />

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