Avoiding inferior clusterings with misspecified Gaussian mixture models

Abstract Clustering is a fundamental tool for exploratory data analysis, and is ubiquitous across scientific disciplines. Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a popular probabilistic and interpretable model for clustering. In many practical settings, the true data distribution, which is unknown, may be n...

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Main Authors: Siva Rajesh Kasa, Vaibhav Rajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44608-3