This is an old version, view current version.

9 Clustering Models

Unsupervised methods for organizing data into groups are collectively referred to as clustering. This chapter describes the implementation in Stan of two widely used statistical clustering models, soft \(K\)-means and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). In addition, this chapter includes naive Bayesian classification, which can be viewed as a form of clustering which may be supervised. These models are typically expressed using discrete parameters for cluster assignments. Nevertheless, they can be implemented in Stan like any other mixture model by marginalizing out the discrete parameters (see the mixture modeling chapter).