king with distances defined in a space transformed by the inverse
covariance matrix.</p>
<p>Although there is no global spatial analog, it is common to see soft
<span class="math inline">\(K\)</span>-means specified with a per-cluster covariance matrix. In this
situation, a hierarchical prior may be used for the covariance matrices.</p>
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