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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF13205</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-2002-13205</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Comparison of Poisson Mixture Models for Count Data Clusterization</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Sušinskas</surname><given-names>Jurgis</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:jur@ktl.mii.lt">jur@ktl.mii.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Radavičius</surname><given-names>Marijus</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:mrad@ktl.mii.lt">mrad@ktl.mii.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos 4, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2002</year></pub-date><volume>13</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>209</fpage><lpage>226</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>03</month><year>2002</year></date></history><abstract><p>Five methods for count data clusterization based on Poisson mixture models are described. Two of them are parametric, the others are semi-parametric. The methods emlploy the plug-in Bayes classification rule. Their performance is investigated by making use of computer simulation and compared mainly by the clusterization error rate. We also apply the clusterization procedures to real count data and discuss the results.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>count data</kwd><kwd>clusterization</kwd><kwd>nonparametric Poisson mixtures</kwd><kwd>plug-in Bayes classification rule</kwd><kwd>maximum likelihood estimator</kwd><kwd>classification error rate</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>