Dirichlet Processes: A Gentle TutorialDirichlet Processes A gentle tutorial Khalid El-Arini SELECT Lab Meeting October 14, 2008 Motivation 2 We are given a data set, and are told that it was generated from a mixture of Gaussian distributions. Unfortunately, no one has any idea how many Gaussians produced the data. Motivation 3 We are given a data set, and are told that it was generated from a mixture of Gaussian distributions.
