Glossary: Unsupervised Learning
Gaussian mixture model (GMM)
Also written: GMM, Gaussian mixture, GaussianMixture, Gaussian mixtures
A soft clustering method that assumes the data came from several overlapping bell-shaped distributions (components). It gives each customer a probability of belonging to each one and can fit stretched, tilted clusters.
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Related terms
component (Gaussian mixture)covarianceBIC (Bayesian information criterion)hard and soft clustering