Using infer.NET for statistical analyses

American Statistician

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-126

  Wang, S S J ^a   Wand, M P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Expectation propagation; Mean field approximation; Variational bayes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960967276     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2011.10169     Document Type: Article

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