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Similar to the fully structured model presented in the previous section, the general k-<br />

components q-variate Poisson mixture model requires the estimation <strong>of</strong> ( k −1)<br />

+ k×<br />

( q+<br />

1)<br />

parameters. The number <strong>of</strong> parameters increases linearly both with the number <strong>of</strong> the<br />

variables and components being considered.<br />

5.1.3 The <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson model with local independence<br />

In the previous sections, it was revealed that in the case <strong>of</strong> three weed species, the joint<br />

probability <strong>of</strong> observing multiple outcomes PY [<br />

1i = y1 i, Y2i = y2i, Y3i = y3i]<br />

<strong>for</strong> an ‘i ’ th<br />

location is distributed according to the <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson distribution. On the other<br />

hand, under the assumption <strong>of</strong> local independence <strong>of</strong> the weed count rates within each<br />

mixture component, this joint probability reduces to the product <strong>of</strong> the weed speciesspecific<br />

densities, that is,<br />

PY [ = y , Y = y , Y = y ] = PY [ = y ] × PY [ = y ] × PY [ = y ].<br />

1i 1i 2i 2i 3i 3i 1i 1i 2i 2i 3i 3i<br />

This means that the following representation is obtained <strong>for</strong> the Y<br />

i<br />

’s:<br />

Y<br />

Y<br />

Y<br />

= X<br />

1 1<br />

= X<br />

2 2<br />

3<br />

= X . 3<br />

In matrix notations, this model can be presented as:<br />

Y = AX<br />

A=[A 1 ]<br />

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