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<h2 number="5.1"><span class="header-section-number">5.1</span> Relation to Clustering</h2>
<p>Clustering models, as discussed in the <a href="clustering-chapter.html#clustering.chapter">clustering
chapter</a>, are just a particular class of mixture
models that have been widely applied to clustering in the engineering
and machine-learning literature. The 