I think it is driven by a general heuristic of finding compressibility. If a distribution seems complex we assume we’re accidentally conflating two variables and seek the decomposition that makes the two resultant distributions approximate-able by simpler functions.
I think it is driven by a general heuristic of finding compressibility. If a distribution seems complex we assume we’re accidentally conflating two variables and seek the decomposition that makes the two resultant distributions approximate-able by simpler functions.