Learning bounds for a generalized family of Bayesian posterior distributions

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Zhang, Tong ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; CONVERGENCE BOUNDS; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBUSTNESS PROPERTIES;

EID: 33847402605     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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