From brian at braverock.com  Sun Sep  4 00:27:13 2011
From: brian at braverock.com (Brian G. Peterson)
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:27:13 -0500
Subject: [Rd] mclust: modelNames("E") vs modelNames=("V")
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On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 08:17 -0700, Nico902 wrote:
> I'm trying to use the library mclust for gaussian mixture on a numeric
> vector. The function Mclust(data,G=3) is working fine but the fitting is not
> optimal and is using modelNames="E". When I'm trying
> Mclust(data,G=3,modelName="V") I have the following message:
> 
> Error in if (Sumry$G > 1) ans[c(orderedNames, "z")] else ans[orderedNames] : 
>   argument is of length zero
> In addition: Warning message:
> In pickBIC(object[as.character(G), modelNames, drop = FALSE], k = 3) :
>   none of the selected models could be fitted
> 
> Using variable variance would fit my data better, any idea how to do it?

This list is for issues related to the development of the R language
itself.  Wouldn't the r-help list be a more appropriate place to ask for
assistance?

Regards,

   - Brian

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[Rd] mclust: modelNames("E") vs modelNames=("V")
Brian G. Peterson