Variational Gaussian process classifiers

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1458-1464

  Gibbs, Mark N ^a   MacKay, David J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bound; Covariance function; Evidence; Hyperparameter; Marginalization; Normalizing constant; Posterior probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043136951     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.883477     Document Type: Article

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