Computational Information Geometry: mixture modelling

Computational Information Geometry... ...in mixture modelling Computational Information Geometry: mixture modelling Germain Van Bever1 , R. Sabolova1 , F. Critchley1 & P. Marriott2 . 1 The Open University (EPSRC grant EP/L010429/1), United Kingdom 2 University of Waterloo, USA GSI15, 28-30 October 2015, Paris Germain Van Bever CIG for mixtures 1/19 Computational Information Geometry... ...in mixture modelling Outline 1 Computational Information Geometry... Information Geometry CIG 2 ...in mixture modelling Introduction Lindsay’s convex geometry (C)IG for mixture distributions Germain Van Bever CIG for mixtures 2/19 Computational Information Geometry... ...in mixture modelling Information Geometry CIG Outline 1 Computational Information Geometry... Information Geometry CIG 2 ...in mixture modelling Introduction Lindsay’s convex geometry (C)IG for mixture distributions Germain Van Bever CIG for mixtures 3/19 Computational Information Geometry... ...in mixture modelling Information Geometry CIG Generalities The use of geometry in statistics gave birth to many different approaches. Traditionally, Information geometry refers to the application of differential geometry to statistica