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Selecting the Number of Mixture Components

Because likelihood alone always improves with more components, K is chosen by penalized criteria: BIC (penalty (P/2) log N, consistent, favored for density estimation) or AIC (penalty P, lighter), scored across candidate K and covariance structures on held-in data.

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Because likelihood alone always improves with more components, K is chosen by penalized criteria: BIC (penalty (P/2) log N, consistent, favored for density estimation) or AIC (penalty P, lighter), scored across candidate K and covariance structures on held-in data.

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