Primer
Nature Biotechnology 26, 897 - 899 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nbt1406
What is the expectation maximization algorithm?
Chuong B Do1 & Serafim Batzoglou1
Abstract
The expectation maximization algorithm arises in many computational biology applications that involve probabilistic models. What is it good for, and how does it work?
- Chuong B. Do and Serafim Batzoglou are in the Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 318 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305-5428, USA.
Correspondence to: Chuong B Do1 e-mail: chuong@cs.stanford.edu
