README for NORMIX CD
HISTORY
OF MY EARLY MULTIVARIATE MIXTURE ANALYSIS WORK
The enclosed file HISTORY.PDF
describes how I came
to
formulate cluster analysis as a mixture problem, with notes on
the referenced
documents. It is a personal memo, informally written,
with
reflections on the factors that influenced the discovery process.
The REPORTS folder is my personal archive
of everything I have
written
about mixture analysis. I recommend
reading Wolfe70,
Wolfe71b,
Wolfe78, and Citations. Most of the rest is repetitious,
superseded
by later work, and of historical value only.
REPORTS contains scanned copies of all of
the materials
referenced
in HISTORY.PDF, as follows:
wolfe60.pdf - The mixture approach first presented in a
term paper written in
1960.
wolfe63x.pdf - My master's thesis -
relevant parts only
wolfe63.pdf - My master's thesis - the whole thing
wolfe65.pdf - The complete technical report "A computer program
for the maximum
likelihood analysis of types"
(USNPRA TechBull 65-15,
May 1965)
wolfe67.pdf - The complete technical report "NORMIX:
Computational methods for
estimating the
parameters of
multivariate normal mixtures of
distributions"
(USNPRA SRM 68-2, August 1967)
wolfe68a.pdf - "NORMIX computer
program documentation"
(USNPRA SRM 69-11)
wolfe68b.pdf - "NORMAP computer
program documentation"
(USNPRA SRM 69-12)
wolfe69.pdf - "Pattern clustering by multivariate mixture
analysis" (USNPRA
SRM 69-17)
wolfe70.pdf - Pattern clustering by multivariate mixture
analysis. Multivariate
Behavioral Research,
5,329-350.
wolfe71a.pdf - "NORMIX 360 computer
program" (NPTRL SRM 72-4)
wolfe71b.pdf - "A Monte Carlo study of the sampling
distribution of the
likelihood ratio for
mixtures of multinormal
distributions"
(NPTRL STB 72-2,
September 1971)
wolfe71c.pdf - "Comparative cluster
analysis of patterns of
vocational interest"
(NPTRL STB 72-3)
wolfe78.pdf - Comparative cluster analysis of patterns of
vocational interest.
Multivariate Behavioral
Research, 13, 33-44.
Zubin65.pdf - A letter from Joseph Zubin.
Fleiss69.pdf - Parts of an MBR journal
article about mixture
analysis
citations.pdf - Partial list of papers,
reports, and books
citing Wolfe(1970).
The
above documents should be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0
or
greater, obtainable from
<http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html>
The
folder "ADOBE" on this CDROM contains Windows versions of the
Reader.
Paper
copies of these reports are also available from the National
Technical
Information Service. The master's thesis should be
available
in microfilm from the
Interlibrary Services
133 Doe Library
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
The full
reference is: Wolfe, John Harmon.
Object Cluster Analysis
of
Social Areas. 1963. [UCB Main
308T.1963.218]
NORMIX
PROGRAM AVAILABILITY
Two versions of Normix are contained on
this CDROM.
NORMIX21.ZIP -
The complete Normix for DOS package in zip form
NORMIX21 -
The folder resulting from unzipping NORMIX21.ZIP
NORMIX22.ZIP -
The complete Normix for Windows 95 in zip form
NORMIX22 -
The folder resulting from unzipping NORMIX22.ZIP.
Normix for DOS also can be downloaded
from any Simtel.net
mirror
site, for example,
<http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/msdos.html>
in the US
<http://www.iniaccess.net.au/simtel.net/msdos.html>
in Australia
<http://mirror.direct.ca/simtel.net/msdos.html>
in Canada.
There
are about 89 such sites around the world, and the Simtel
collection
is also available on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM
(1-800-786-9907)
<http://www.cdrom.com>.
Just do a search for NORMIX in the
search window that comes up.
The
Normix21.zip file contains the source code, executable code, and
several
sample data sets with expected outputs.
The Normix22.zip program is free for
non-commercial
users.
Registered users receive a copy of this CD-ROM and
E-mail
or telephone support for 90 days.
The contents of this CDROM may be
freely copied and
distributed.
__________________________________________________________________________
John H.
Wolfe Internet
wolfe@alumni.caltech.edu
Voice:(619)222-5860 FAX: (619)523-3114
4310
Hill St., San Diego, CA 92107-4117