## Fitting finite mixtures of generalized linear regressions in R.(English)Zbl 1445.62192

Summary: R package flexmix provides flexible modelling of finite mixtures of regression models using the EM algorithm. Several new features of the software such as fixed and nested varying effects for mixtures of generalized linear models and multinomial regression for a priori probabilities given concomitant variables are introduced. The use of the software in addition to model selection is demonstrated on a logistic regression example.

### MSC:

 62J12 Generalized linear models (logistic models) 62H30 Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) 62-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics

### Software:

mmlcr; flexmix; R
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