 Mixture Models

Online text: www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/uADA/15/lectures/20.pdf

Archived chapter draft dated 1 April 2015. This timestamp identifies the inspected draft, not a print publication date. The parent is an author-hosted draft textbook, not a claim that Cambridge University Press published this version.

Cited passages: §21.1.3, printed p. 443, equations (21.2)-(21.3), and §21.1.7, p. 446: choose a label, then sample its component; §21.1.5, printed pp. 444-445: observational equivalence and label degeneracy; §21.1.6, printed pp. 445-446: probabilistic clustering and evaluation on future data.