EM algorithm

What’s the EM #algorithm?
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n8/full/nbt1406.html Description of its essence in simple contexts (ie coin toss) & as soft version of kmeans

What is the expectation maximization algorithm? : Article : Nature Biotechnology

Primer
Nature Biotechnology 26, 897 – 899 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nbt1406

Chuong B Do & Serafim Batzoglou

Abstract
The expectation maximization algorithm arises in many computational biology applications that involve probabilistic models. What is it good for, and how does it work?

without too much math

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