Re:Ideas in statistics that have powered AI
by dkshdkjshdk on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:58PM
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> Given a Dirac comb
> c(x) = 1/n Σ_i=1^n δ(х - x_i)
Sorry for the pedantry, but a mixture of Dirac distributions is almost always not a Dirac comb. Notice that a mixture of Dirac distributions is a Dirac comb only if you have an infinite number of equally-separated samples (and empirical distributions tend to have a finite number of samples).
> c(x) = 1/n Σ_i=1^n δ(х - x_i)
Sorry for the pedantry, but a mixture of Dirac distributions is almost always not a Dirac comb. Notice that a mixture of Dirac distributions is a Dirac comb only if you have an infinite number of equally-separated samples (and empirical distributions tend to have a finite number of samples).