Multinomial Mixture Model for Supermarket Shoppers Segmentation

A complete tutorial

Adrien Biarnes
Towards Data Science
31 min readOct 14, 2020

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In my last article, I wrote a detailed explanation of the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and the way it is trained using the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. This time, I wanted to show that a mixture model is not necessarily a mixture of Gaussian densities. It can be a mixture of any distribution. In this example, we…

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