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Gaussian Mixture Models Clustering Algorithm Explained

Cory Maklin
Towards Data Science
8 min readJul 15, 2019

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Gaussian mixture models can be used to cluster unlabeled data in much the same way as k-means. There are, however, a couple of advantages to using Gaussian mixture models over k-means.

First and foremost, k-means does not account for variance. By variance, we are referring to the width of the bell shape curve.

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