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Singularity and Slow Convergence of the EM algorithm for Gaussian Mixtures

✍ Scribed by Hyeyoung Park; Tomoko Ozeki

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
660 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
1370-4621

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