前段时间的group reading 上,一个senior lecturer发出上述疑问 我想不光是她,很多人都有或有过类似的想法。正好research gate上有这样的问答,我觉得解释的很清楚了---尽管很简短
If I have a dataset, how can I prove that this dataset has a nature of Gaussian Mixture Model GMM?
One reason why GMMs are used without asking the question if the data is GMM distributed lies in the fact that a GMM is a universal function approximator. That is, whatever the original distribution of the data was, when allowing a significant number of mixture components, it is expected that the GMM approaches the true distribution.
As Marco Huber