K-means uses Gaussian errors. The dirichlet clustering can be configured to use Gaussian errors.
SVD uses Gaussian errors. QR decomposition can be used to solve problems with Gaussian errors. I think I don't understand what you are asking about. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Matthew McClain <mattmccla...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm pretty new to Mahout, but it looks like there aren't any statistical > machine learning algorithms that use Gaussian distributions. Specifically, > I'm thinking of clustering algorithms that use Gaussian distributions to > model clusters and hidden Markov models that use Gaussian distributions. > Can someone tell if these are in Mahout somewhere, and if not, has this > been discussed at all? > > Thanks, > Matt >