Masaq Index
arXiv 2008-05-23 0 views

Marginal Likelihood Integrals for Mixtures of Independence Models

Lin, Shaowei · Sturmfels, Bernd · Xu, Zhiqiang

Original · EN

Inference in Bayesian statistics involves the evaluation of marginal likelihood integrals. We present algebraic algorithms for computing such integrals exactly for discrete data of small sample size. Our methods apply to both uniform priors and Dirichlet priors. The underlying statistical models are mixtures of independent distributions, or, in geometric language, secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties.

English translation

This paper has no Arabic translation yet. Be the first: it takes a few seconds, and the result is stored for every future reader.

Security check

Type the characters above

Up to 10 translations per person per day.