An Intuitive Explanation of the Bayesian Information Criterion

How to know if you’ve picked the right model

Mikhail Klassen
Towards Data Science
4 min readJul 1, 2020

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In machine learning, when faced with a mountain of unlabeled data, a data scientist’s first impulse is to try clustering the data. Clusters give us a way of describing data, finding commonalities between data points, and catching outliers.

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