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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: Probability density estimation and clustering ???
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In article <32D212C8.465A@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>, Yves Moreau <moreau@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:
|> I was wondering if there exists any methods for clustering /
|> quantization / unsupervised learning that would be based on first
|> building an estimate of the probability density function of the data. In
|> other words, is there any methods for locating the "bumps" of a
|> probability density function (without assuming that the distribution is
|> a mixture of Gaussians or of other distributions, since you could then
|> use the EM algorithm)?

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