data (something that can be coerced into a matrix).

output object from summary.mclustBIC for xdata. Either mclustsummary or all of clustering, probs, muarray, Sigmaarray and z need to be specified (the latter are obtained from mclustsummary if they are not provided). I am not aware of restrictions of the usage of mclustBIC to produce an initial clustering; covariance matrix models can be restricted and a noise component can be included if desired, although I have probably not tested all possibilities.

vector of integers. Initial assignment of data to mixture components.

vector of component proportions (for all components; should sum up to one).

matrix of component means (rows).

array of component covariance matrices (third dimension refers to component number).

matrix of observation- (row-)wise posterior probabilities of belonging to the components (columns).

one of "bhat", "ridge.uni", "ridge.ratio", "demp", "dipuni", "diptantrum", "predictive". See details.

numeric between 0 and 1. Tuning constant, see details and Hennig (2010). If not specified, the default values given in (9) in Hennig (2010) are used.

real between 0 and 1. Interval width for density computation along the ridgeline, used for methods "ridge.uni" and "ridge.ratio". Methods "dipuni" and "diptantrum" require ridgeline computations and use it as well.

integer. If specified, cutoff is ignored and components are merged until the number of clusters specified here is reached.

logical. If TRUE merged clusters are renumbered from 1 to their number. If not, numbers of the original clustering are used (numbers of components that were merged into others then will not appear).

integer. Number of times the dataset is divided into two halves. Used if method="predictive".

additional optional parameters to pass on to ridgeline.diagnosis or mixpredictive (in mergenormals).

object of class mergenorm, output of mergenormals.

object of class summary.mergenorm, output of summary.mergenorm.

integer vector. Final clustering.

vector of numbers of remaining clusters. These are given in terms of the original clusters even of renumber=TRUE, in which case they may be needed to understand the numbering of some further components, see below.

vector of numbers of components that were "merged away".

vector of values of the merging criterion (see details) at which components were merged.

vector of numbers of clusters to which the original components were merged.

a list, if mclustsummary was provided. Entry no. i refers to number i in clusternumbers. The list entry i contains the parameters of the original mixture components that make up cluster i, as extracted by extract.mixturepars.

vector of prediction strength values for clusternumbers from 1 to the number of components in the original mixture, if method=="predictive". See mixpredictive.

square matrix with entries giving the original values of the merging criterion (see details) for every pair of original mixture components.

square matrix as orig.decisionmatrix, but with final entries; numbering of rows and columns corresponds to clusternumbers; all entries corresponding to other rows and columns can be ignored.

final cluster values of probs (see arguments) for merged components, generated by (potentially repeated) execution of mergeparameters out of the original ones. Numbered according to clusternumbers.

final cluster means, analogous to probs.

final cluster covariance matrices, analogous to probs.

final matrix of posterior probabilities of observations belonging to the clusters, analogous to probs.

logical. If TRUE, there was a noise component fitted in the initial mclust clustering (see help for initialization in mclustBIC). In this case, a cluster number 0 indicates noise. noise is ignored by the merging methods and kept as it was originally.

as above.

as above.