Fast computation of posterior mode in multi-level hierarchical models

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 - Proceedings of the 2008 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1913-1920

  Zhang, Liang ^a   Agarwal, Deepak ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

FAST COMPUTATION; GAUSSIANS; LAPLACE'S APPROXIMATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MODEL FITTING; MULTI-LEVEL HIERARCHICAL MODELING; NON-GAUSSIAN RESPONSE; PARAMETERS ESTIMATES; PARAMETERS ESTIMATION; RESPONSE PARAMETERS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84863380417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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