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educe the computational burden; however the calculation remains computationally<br />

time-consuming <strong>for</strong> large dimensions.<br />

This computational burden problem brings out the idea to create <strong>multivariate</strong><br />

distributions with selected covariances, that is, not to include all the possible covariance<br />

terms, but only to select the covariance terms that are useful. In reality, using all the m-<br />

fold covariance terms imposes too much structure, while complicating the whole<br />

procedure without adding any further insight into the data. For this reason, after a<br />

preliminary assessment, one may identify interesting covariance terms that may be<br />

included into the model. This selection corresponds to fixing the value <strong>of</strong> the Poisson<br />

parameters, that is, the corresponding θ ’s.<br />

Based on this general description <strong>of</strong> the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson distribution and the<br />

relationship with more suitable sub<strong>models</strong>, a detailed description <strong>of</strong> each model is<br />

provided in the next few sections.<br />

5.1.1 The fully- structured <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson model<br />

The theoretical development <strong>of</strong> the fully structured <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson model will be<br />

illustrated by weed species: Wild Buckwheat, Dandelion and Wild Oats. Suppose the<br />

objective is to cluster weed count data based on the mean counts in a set <strong>of</strong> three weed<br />

species, that is, Wild Buckwheat ( Y 1<br />

), Dandelion ( Y 2<br />

), Wild Oats ( Y 3<br />

). Following the<br />

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