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Advantages and Disadvantages of Mixture Models

  • Strength
    • Mixture models are more general than partitioning and fuzzy clustering
    • Clusters can be characterized by a small number of parameters
    • The results may satisfy the statistical assumptions of the generative models
  • Weakness
    • Converge to local optimal (overcome: run multi-times w. random initialization)
    • Computationally expensive if the number of distributions is large, or the data set contains very few observed data points
    • Need large data sets
    • Hard to estimate the number of clusters


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