basic_Init_Parameters = function(n,p,m,k){ phiInit = array(0, dim=c(p,m,k)) piInit = (1.0/k)*rep.int(1,k) rhoInit = array(0, dim=c(m,m,k)) for(i in 1:k){ rhoInit[,,i] = diag(m) } gamInit = 0.1*array(1, dim=c(n,k)) R = sample(1:k,n, replace= TRUE) for(i in 1:n){ gamInit[i,R[i]] = 0.9 } gamInit = gamInit/sum(gamInit[1,]) return(list(phiInit, rhoInit, piInit, gamInit)) } n= 10 p = 10 m = 5 k = 5 list_param = basic_Init_Parameters(n,p,m,k)