John H. Wolfe

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John H. Wolfe is the inventor of

Caltech and then went to graduate school in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley
to work with Robert Tryon.

Around 1959,

first as a computer programmer and then as an operations research analyst.

He continued his research on clustering and in 1965 he published the paper that invented model-based clustering.

posterior probabilities of membership in each cluster. This paper also contains the first publicly available software for estimating the model, called NORMIX. This was extended and published in a journal by Wolfe (1970).[6]

After 1970, Wolfe worked on other topics, but

R packages) have been downloaded over 14 million times.[8]

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  4. ^ Wolfe, J.H. (1963). Object cluster analysis of social areas, M.A. thesis. University of California, Berkeley.
  5. ^ Wolfe, J.H. (1965). A computer program for the maximum-likelihood analysis of types. USNPRA Technical Bulletin 65-15 (Report). US Naval Pers. Res. Act., San Diego, CA.
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  7. ^ Assessed by adding the citations to all articles with "model-based clustering" in the title enumerated by Google Scholar, accessed March 3, 2024
  8. ^ https://www.datasciencemeta.com/rpackages, accessed March 3, 2024