Re: [Java-ML-support] Question about AIC and BIC scores

[Thomas A. <th...@ab...>]

Hi Sergio,

This has been a while. This may be a bug. Can you point me to any 
literature reference that says the number of free parameters = 
clusters.length-1?

cheers,
Thomas
On 11/12/2013 9:08 AM, Sergio Pulido wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I see that the implementation of AICScore and BICScore uses a k=1 as 
> the number of free parameters
>
> // number of free parameters K
> double k = 1;
>
> Can you explain me why the number of free parameters is not the number 
> of clusters -1?
>
> // number of free parameters K
> double k = clusters.length - 1;
>
> Thank you a lot,
> Sergio.
>
>
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