Inference from multinomial data based on a MLE-dominance criterion

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5590 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 22-33

  Benavoli, Alessio ^a   De Campos, Cassio P ^a  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BAYESIAN ESTIMATORS; CONVEX POLYTOPES; DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTIONS; DOMINANCE CRITERIA; IMPRECISE DIRICHLET MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MEAN ESTIMATORS; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MULTINOMIAL DATA; PARAMETER VECTORS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 69149089613     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02906-6_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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