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RMBC (version 0.1.0)

robustINIT: robustINIT

Description

Robust Initializer for RMBC algorithm, it depends on the package ktaucenters

Usage

robustINIT(Y, K, nstart = 10)

Arguments

Y

A matrix of size n x p.

K

The number of groups

nstart

the number of starting points to the algorithm, defaults to 10

Value

A list including the initial parameters of the mixture distribution, namely

  • alphaINIT: K numeric values representing the convex combination coefficients.

  • muINIT: a list of length K with the location initial estimators.

  • sigmaINIT: a list of length K with the scatter matrix estimators.

  • indicesINIT: indices with initial clusters