Slice sampling covariance hyperparameters of latent Gaussian models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Murray, Iain ^a   Adams, Ryan Prescott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MARKOV PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; GAUSSIAN MODELING; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; HYPER-PARAMETER; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SAMPLINGS; NON-GAUSSIAN; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SLICE SAMPLINGS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85162070336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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