Nonlinear nonparametric mixed-effects models for unsupervised classification

In this work we propose a novel EM method for the estimation of nonlinear nonparametric mixed-effects models, aimed at unsupervised classification. We perform simulation studies in order to evaluate the algorithm performance and we apply this new procedure to a real dataset.

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