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estimated through the observations is considered. As a comparison, finite mixture<br />

<strong>models</strong> are also discussed. The advantage <strong>of</strong> the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson <strong>hidden</strong> Markov<br />

model is that it takes serial correlation into account. Spatial in<strong>for</strong>mation can be<br />

discovered by introducing a suitable covariance structure. To fit the <strong>multivariate</strong><br />

Poisson <strong>hidden</strong> Markov model and the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson finite mixture model, the<br />

EM (expectation-maximization) algorithm is used.<br />

4.4 Goals <strong>of</strong> the thesis:<br />

1. Strategies <strong>for</strong> computation <strong>of</strong> <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson probabilities:<br />

(i)<br />

(ii)<br />

Develop suitable recurrence relationships.<br />

Implement the recurrence relations using Splus/R s<strong>of</strong>tware.<br />

2. Univariate <strong>analysis</strong> <strong>for</strong> each species to find out how many clusters (or states)<br />

using finite mixture <strong>models</strong> and <strong>hidden</strong> Markov <strong>models</strong>.<br />

3. Construct <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson <strong>models</strong> with independent, common and restricted<br />

covariance structures and implement that in Splus/R s<strong>of</strong>tware.<br />

4. Fit a set <strong>of</strong> loglinear <strong>models</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>multivariate</strong> counts to decide the covariance<br />

structure.<br />

5. Fit <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson finite mixture <strong>models</strong> and <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson <strong>hidden</strong><br />

Markov <strong>models</strong> with independent, common and restricted covariance structures<br />

to determine the number <strong>of</strong> clusters.<br />

6. Estimate the parameters <strong>of</strong> the distributions <strong>of</strong> clusters and calculate the standard<br />

errors using the bootstrap method.<br />

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