Density estimation by dual ascent of the log-likelihood

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 217-233

  Tabak, Esteban G ^a   Vanden Eijnden, Eric ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Machine learning; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954714760     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2010.v8.n1.a11     Document Type: Article

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