Inference with multinomial data: Why to weaken the prior strength

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2107-2112

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

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

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Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ESTIMATORS; DIRICHLET; DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRICHLET PRIOR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS (MLE); MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MULTINOMIAL DATA; MULTINOMIALS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84881064370     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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