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Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading
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Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

by Stefan Jansen
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
684 pages
21h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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The expectation-maximization algorithm

GMM uses the expectation-maximization algorithm to identify the components of the mixture of Gaussian distributions. The goal is to learn the probability distribution parameters from unlabeled data.

The algorithm proceeds iteratively as follows:

  1. Initialization—Assume random centroids (for example, using k-Means)
  2. Repeat the following steps until convergence (that is, changes in assignments drop below the threshold):
    • Expectation step: Soft assignmentcompute probabilities for each point from each distribution
    • Maximization step: Adjust normal-distribution parameters to make data points most likely

The following screenshot shows the GMM cluster membership probabilities for the Iris dataset as contour ...

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