The following book and its bibliography has a good coverage of the
mixture model approach to clustering.

Regards,  Murray Jorgensen


Finite mixture models / Geoffrey McLachlan, David Peel.
Main Author: 	McLachlan, Geoffrey J., 1946-
Other Author(s): 	Peel, David, 1971-
	
Format: 	Book
Subject(s): 	Mixture distributions (Probability theory)
Publisher: 	New York : Wiley, c2000.

shannon wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> I have been invited to write a chapter on cluster analysis for an upcoming
> handbook of statistics.  Part of this chapter will focus on
> state-of-the-art methodology.
> 
> I would welcome anyone's send me references to papers they think are
> ground-breaking and represent state-of-the-art cluster analysis
> methodology that should be part of this chapter.  These can be your own
> papers or other peoples papers and can come from any area including
> applied data analysis, stats, math, computer science, etc.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> 
> Bill
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