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Von Mises mixtures: mu and kappa?

Peter Mills 
Thank you Bert for the references. I have found mix.vmf as a possible alternative to movMF but am stuck with applying either to my application.

Does anyone know why mix.vmf requires to 2 columns for x?

For example when I use:
gWD <- c(0.1, 1, 0.9, 0.7,0.3)
I get the error:
?Error in matrix(nrow = n, ncol = g) : non-numeric matrix extent?

The following code works but I'm not sure how to adapt this to the application I require. What I need is to calculate the mixture parameters for a vector of directional data not a matrix. Could anyone suggest how I can do this?

k <- c(1, 2)
prob <- c(0.3, 0.4, 0.3)
mu <- matrix(rnorm(4), ncol = 2)
mu <- mu / sqrt( rowSums(mu^2) )
x <- rmixvmf(10, prob, mu, k)$x
mix.vmf(x, 3)

With regards to my original post and using movMF I'm stuck with this also. I found the following from [1], I thought this was the answer however it seems to need some adjustment as it is not giving me the theta and kappa values I started with:
kappa2 <- row_norms(y2$theta)
mu2<-y2$theta/row_norms(y2$theta)

[1] On lines 94 and 107 of ?v58i10.R: R example code from the paper ? available from https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v058i10

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated as after a further week of researching this and trying code I still don't seem to have working code.


Here is some code I am using as a testing example:
################################################
## Generate and fit a "small-mix" data set a la Banerjee et al.
mu1 <- rbind(c(-0.251, -0.968),
            c(0.399, 0.917))
kappa1 <- c(4, 4)
theta <- kappa1 * mu1
alpha <- c(0.48, 0.52)
## Generate a sample of size n = 50 from the von Mises-Fisher mixture ## with the above parameters.
set.seed(123)
x <- rmovMF(50, theta, alpha)
## Fit a von Mises-Fisher mixture with the "right" number of components, ## using 10 EM runs.
y2 <- movMF(x, 2, nruns = 10)

kappa2 <- row_norms(y2$theta)
mu2<-y2$theta/row_norms(y2$theta)


mu3c <- lapply(y2, function(x) y2$theta / row_norms(y2$theta)) ################################################

I don't understand why this doesn't give me the values of mu and kappa I started with. I have tried to adapted this code to have the same number of mu and kappa values but it doesn't work then as mu is know longer a matrix.

I don't understand why both movMF and mix.vmf give both mu1 and mu2 values per kappa value. In other words for a Von Mises mixture with 3 mixtures (clusters) the code gives 6 mu values and 3 kappa values. I was expecting to get 3 preferred directions (mu).

For example:
mix.vmf(x, 3) gives

$param
                mu1        	mu2     	kappa     probs
Cluster 1 0.4985047 -0.8668870 12.281773 0.3571429
Cluster 2 0.9490725  0.3150578 34.028465 0.2857143
Cluster 3 0.1017800  0.9948069  4.182367 0.3571429

Many thanks
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Bert Gunter [mailto:bgunter.4567 at gmail.com] 
Sent: 14 February 2017 17:49
To: Peter Mills
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Von Mises mixtures: mu and kappa?

Please search before posting!

Searching "von mises mixture distributions" on rseek.org brought up what appeared to be several relevant hits. If none of these meet your needs, you should probably explain why not in a follow up post.

Cheers,
Bert


Bert Gunter

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Peter Mills <peter.mills at strath.ac.uk> wrote:

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