Bayesian Statistics: Mixture Models introduces you to an important class of statistical models. The course is organized in five modules, each of which contains lecture videos, short quizzes, background reading, discussion prompts, and one or more peer-reviewed assignments. Statistics is best learned by doing it, not just watching a video, so the course is structured to help you learn through application.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Basic concepts on Mixture Models
This module defines mixture models, discusses its properties, and develops the likelihood function for a random sample from a mixture model that will be the basis for statistical learning.
Maximum likelihood estimation for Mixture Models
Bayesian estimation for Mixture Models
Applications of Mixture Models
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TOP REVIEWS FROM BAYESIAN STATISTICS: MIXTURE MODELS
I learned a lot about bayesian mixture model, expectation maximization, and MCMC algorithms and their use case in classification and clustering problems. I highly recommend this course.
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