In many quality control applications, use of a single (or several distinct) quality characteristic(s) is insufficient to characterize the quality of a produced item. In an increasing number of cases, a response curve ...

We study a model-based clustering procedure that aims to identify geographic regions with distinctive relationships among ecological and environmental variables. We use a finite mixture model with a distinct linear regression ...

In the context of interest, a method of cluster analysis is used to classify a set of units into a fixed number of classes. Simulation procedures with various conceptual foundations may be used to evaluate uncertainty, ...