Shadow Dirichlet for restricted probability modeling

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Frigyik, Bela A ^a   Gupta, Maya R ^a   Chen, Yihua ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BOUNDED VARIATIONS; CLASS OF DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRICHLET; DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL PROBABILITIES; MONOTONICS; PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION; PROBABILITY MODELLING; PROPERTY; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM;

MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

EID: 85162040100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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