A C++ software tool for fitting mixtures of multivariate skew-t distributions to data. It is distributed for research use only under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
If you use this software for your research, please acknowledge it in your papers by citing the following references:
S. Riggi, S. Ingrassia, "A model-based clustering approach for mass composition analysis of high energy cosmic rays", Astroparticle Physics 48 (2013) 86–96
or consider including me (S. Riggi, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Via S. Sofia 78, I-95123, Catania, Italy)
as a co-author on your publications.
Software is currently been updated.
Install the project mandatory dependencies:
- ROOT [https://root.cern.ch/]
- R [https://www.r-project.org/], install also these additional packages: RInside, Rcpp, Matrix, moments, flexclust
- log4cxx [https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/]
- boost [http://www.boost.org/]
Make sure you have set the following environment variables to the external library installation dirs
- ROOTSYS: set to ROOT installation path
- LOG4CXX_DIR: set to LOG4CXX library installation path
- BOOST_ROOT: set to BOOST library installation path
NB: Modify Makefile CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS in case the dependency tools cannot be found.
To build the project:
- Clone this repository into your local $SOURCE_DIR
git clone https://github.com/simoneriggi/mst-mix-fitter.git $SOURCE_DIR - In the project directory type:
make
Binaries will be placed in the bin/ directory and libraries in the lib/ directory.
MSTMixtureFitter --config=[path-to-configfile]
--config=[path-to-configfile] - Configuration file name with options