Unsupervised data classification using pairwise Markov chains with automatic copulas selection

Stéphane Derrode and Wojciech Pieczynski

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2013, vol. 63, issue C, 81-98

Abstract: The Pairwise Markov Chain (PMC) model assumes the couple of observations and states processes to be a Markov chain. To extend the modeling capability of class-conditional densities involved in the PMC model, copulas are introduced and the influence of their shape on classification error rates is studied. In particular, systematic experiments show that the use of wrong copulas can degrade significantly classification performances. Then an algorithm is presented to identify automatically the right copulas from a finite set of admissible copulas, by extending the general “Iterative Conditional Estimation” (ICE) parameters estimation method to the context considered. The unsupervised segmentation of a radar image illustrates the nice behavior of the algorithm.

Keywords: Pairwise Markov chain; Copulas; Iterative conditional estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2013.01.027

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