This is an old version, view current version.

5.1 Relation to clustering

Clustering models, as discussed in the clustering chapter, are just a particular class of mixture models that have been widely applied to clustering in the engineering and machine-learning literature. The normal mixture model discussed in this chapter reappears in multivariate form as the statistical basis for the \(K\)-means algorithm; the latent Dirichlet allocation model, usually applied to clustering problems, can be viewed as a mixed-membership multinomial mixture model.