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