Bhattacharya, Sakyajit; McNicholas, Paul - In: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 8 (2014) 1, pp. 45-61
The efficacy of family-based approaches to mixture model-based clustering and classification depends on the selection of parsimonious models. Current wisdom suggests the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) for mixture model selection. However, the BIC has well-known limitations, including a...