Practice Mixture Models: Introduction And Intuition (5.3) - Latent Variable & Mixture Models
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Mixture Models: Introduction and Intuition

Practice - Mixture Models: Introduction and Intuition

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is a mixture model in simple terms?

💡 Hint: Think about different groups that might exist in the data.

Question 2 Easy

Give one application of mixture models.

💡 Hint: Consider where grouping information is beneficial.

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Question 1

What does a mixture model assume about data?

It comes from a single distribution
It comes from multiple distributions
It cannot be analyzed

💡 Hint: Remember the definition of a mixture model.

Question 2

True or False: Mixing coefficients indicate the importance of each cluster in a mixture model.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what these coefficients represent.

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Challenge 1 Hard

You have a dataset of customer purchases. How would you apply a mixture model to segment customers?

💡 Hint: Start by analyzing customer data for patterns.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of using mixture models in high-dimensional data contexts.

💡 Hint: Consider the challenges of working with more variables.

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