The XYZ company manufactures mobile phones. It is currently considering introducing two new lines of phone, the Standard and the Executive. Each phone needs a battery, a chip, and an injection-moulded ...

Changepoint models are widely used to model the heterogeneity of sequential data. We present a novel sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) online expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for estimating the ...

Mixtures of linear mixed models (MLMMs) are useful for clustering grouped data and can be estimated by likelihood maximization through the Expectation-Maximization algorithm. A suitable number of ...