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by nuclearnice1 1379 days ago
Another excellent paper on the similarities between all those linear models is “ A Unifying Review of Linear Gaussian Models”

> Factor analysis, principal component analysis, mixtures of gaussian clusters, vector quantization, Kalman filter models, and hidden Markov models can all be unified as variations of unsupervised learning under a single basic generative model.

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/13697/1/ROWnc99.pdf