Re: [Scikit-learn-general] scikits.mixture.GMM.fit issue

2014-02-26 Thread Jacob Vanderplas
Hi Dmitry, At first glance, I'd say this is probably not a bug. GMM doesn't solve the problem of "what exact Gaussian distributions generated my data". It solves the problem of "what mixture of Gaussians minimizes this cost function". I'd suspect that for the data you're using, the cost function a

[Scikit-learn-general] scikits.mixture.GMM.fit issue

2014-02-26 Thread Dmitry Svinkin
To scikit-learn-general, I fit the bimodal 1D distribution with the strong overlap of Gaussian components using scikits.mixture.GMM. The scikits.mixture.GMM.fit gives result which is inconsistent with parameters of input distribution. The code below demonstrates the issue. In case the two compon