mclust: an R package for normal mixture modeling

mclust

An R package for normal mixture modeling via EM, model-based clustering, classification, and density estimation.

mclust is available on CRAN and is described in
MCLUST Version 4 for R: Normal Mixture Modeling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation, Technical Report no. 597, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, June 2012.

Authors:
Chris Fraley and Adrian Raftery
Department of Statistics, University of Washington, USA
T. Brendan Murphy
University College Dublin, Ireland
Luca Scrucca
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy

Future announcements, such as software releases, will be communicated via this web site and through postings associated with the R language.
mclust is licensed under GPL-2 | GPL-3.

CRAN packages with functions requiring mclust include: clustvarsel, fpc, msir. For a comprehensive list see Reverse dependencies in CRAN.
Bioconductor packages with functions requiring mclust include spotSegmentation.
Principal Curve Clustering and Pseudolikelihood Image Segmentation papers, research code, and datasets.

The old mclust version 3 is available for backward compatibility as package source, MacOS X binary and Windows binary.
It is described in MCLUST Version 3 for R: Normal Mixture Modeling and Model-Based Clustering, Technical Report no. 504, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, September 2006 (subsequent revisions).