Auxiliary-variable exact Hamiltonian Monte Carlo samplers for binary distributions

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pakman, Ari ^a   Paninski, Liam ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HAMILTONIANS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BINARY DISTRIBUTION; EXACT HAMILTONIAN; GAUSSIANS; GIBBS SAMPLERS; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; NEW APPROACHES; PIECEWISE-CONTINUOUS; REGRESSION MODEL;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 84898958653     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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