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diff --git a/algorithm.tex b/algorithm.tex index 1747227..30ce77c 100644 --- a/algorithm.tex +++ b/algorithm.tex @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ distribution of the model is given by: P(\bx, y) = \cN(\bx | \bar{\bx}_y, \Sigma) P(y), \label{eq:mixture of Gaussians} \end{align} -where $\bx$ denotes an observation, $y$ is a class, $P(y)$ is the probability of the class, and $\cN(\bx | \bar{\bx}_y, \Sigma)$ is the conditional probability of $\bx$ given $y$. The conditional is a multivariate normal distribution. The mean of the distribution is $\bar{\bx}_y$ and the variance of $\bx$ is captured by the covariance matrix $\Sigma$. The decision boundary between any two classes is linear when all conditionals $\cN(\bx | \bar{\bx}_y, \Sigma)$ have the same covariance matrix \cite{bishop06pattern}. In this setting, the mixture of Gaussians model can be viewed as a probabilistic variant of the nearest-neighbor (NN) classifier in Section~\ref{sec:uniqueness}. +where $\bx$ denotes an observation, $y$ is a class, $P(y)$ is the probability of the class, and $\cN(\bx | \bar{\bx}_y, \Sigma)$ is the conditional probability of $\bx$ given $y$. The conditional is a multivariate normal distribution. Its mean is $\bar{\bx}_y$ and the variance of $\bx$ is captured by the covariance matrix $\Sigma$. The decision boundary between any two classes $y$ is linear when all conditionals $\cN(\bx | \bar{\bx}_y, \Sigma)$ have the same covariance matrix $\Sigma$ \cite{bishop06pattern}. In this scenario, the mixture of Gaussians model can be viewed as a probabilistic variant of the nearest-neighbor (NN) classifier in Section~\ref{sec:uniqueness}. The mixture of Gaussians model has many advantages. First, the model can be easily learned using maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation \cite{bishop06pattern}. |