Le 19/03/2013 15:32, Becksfort, Jared a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I recently submitted some code for the fitting of multivariate normal mixture 
> model distributions to data using the Expectation Maximization algorithm.  I 
> placed the code in the o.a.c.m.optimization.fitting package.  Gilles wonders 
> if it would make more sense to have it in the o.a.c.m.distribution.fitting 
> package.  That may be true.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Either one is fine by me.  EM is an optimization algorithm and 
> it also fits distributions.  It uses a lot of the code from 
> o.a.c.m.distribution and none from o.a.c.m.optimization, so that may imply 
> that it would make sense to move it.
> 
> The code is not yet committed.  Here is the link: 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-817

I am not a specialist in these area, but also feel EM would be more at
home with distributions er even statistics than in optimization.

best regards,

Luc

> 
> Thanks,
> Jared
> 
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