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The flexmix Package - NexTag Supports Open Source Initiatives

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18 ICL<br />

ICL<br />

Integrated completed likelihood criterion<br />

Description<br />

Compute the Integrated Completed Likelihood criterion for model selection.<br />

Usage<br />

## S4 method for signature '<strong>flexmix</strong>':<br />

ICL(object, ...)<br />

## S4 method for signature 'stepFlexmix':<br />

ICL(object, ...)<br />

Arguments<br />

object<br />

see Methods section below<br />

... Some methods for this generic function may take additional, optional arguments.<br />

At present none do.<br />

Value<br />

Returns a numeric vector with the corresponding ICL value(s).<br />

Methods<br />

object = "<strong>flexmix</strong>": Compute the ICL of a <strong>flexmix</strong> object.<br />

object = "stepFlexmix": Compute the ICL of all models contained in the stepFlexmix object.<br />

Author(s)<br />

Friedrich Leisch and Bettina Gruen<br />

References<br />

C. Biernacki, G. Celeux and G. Govaert. Assessing a mixture model for clustering with the integrated<br />

completed likelihood. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence<br />

22(7), pages 719-725, 2000.<br />

Examples<br />

data("NPreg")<br />

ex1

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