Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ec.ecn.purdue.edu!behzad From: behzad@ec.ecn.purdue.edu (Behzad M Shahshahani) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Neural Net for finding number of clusters Message-ID: <1991Apr14.170640.2662@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: 14 Apr 91 17:06:40 GMT Sender: root@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (ECN System Management) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 4 Has anyone out there seen any application of neural networks for estimating the number of underlying clusters in a mixture distribution? As far as know, this is a very hard statistical problem.