Bayesian Density Estimation and Inference Using Mixtures
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...Recently, Yeung, Fraley, Murua, Raftery, and Ruzzo (2001) applied the model-based method of Section 5....
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...This approach was proposed for onedimensional density estimation by Escobar and West (1995) and MacEachern and Müller (1998), and extended to the multivariate case by Müller, Erkanli, and West (1996)....
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...In the case of a single mixture model (J = 1), Escobar and West (1995) proposed a gamma prior and derived an auxiliary variable update for α0, and Rasmussen (2000) observed that (A.1) is log-concave in log(α0) and proposed using adaptive rejection sampling instead....
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...(A.7) Again, other variables are independent of γ given m·· and K, hence we may apply the techniques of Escobar and West (1995) or Rasmussen (2000) to sampling γ ....
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...The auxiliary variable method of Escobar and West (1995) requires a slight modification for the case where J > 1....
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...A number of authors have studied such DP mixture models (Antoniak 1974; Escobar and West 1995; MacEachern and Müller 1998)....
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...Our work is based on a tool from nonparametric Bayesian analysis known as the Dirichlet process (DP) mixture model [2, 3]....
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...For simplicity, we avoid the treatment of nonparametric model averaging techniques; see for example (Escobar & West, 1995; Green & Richardson, 2000)....
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...In traditional mean-field variational inference, we optimize Equation 8 with coordinate ascent....
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...…2006; Salakhutdinov and Mnih, 2008; Paisley and Carin, 2009; Hoffman et al., 2010b), certain Bayesian nonparametric mixture models (Antoniak, 1974; Escobar and West, 1995; Teh et al., 2006a), and others.2 Analyzing data with one of these models amounts to computingthe posterior distribution of…...
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...Approximate posterior inference for BNP models in general is an active field of research (Escobar and West, 1995; Neal, 2000; Blei and Jordan, 2006; Teh et al., 2007)....
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...Some of the earlier references on Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods include work of Geman and Geman ( 1984), Hasting ( l970), Metropolis et al. ( 1953), and Tanner and Wong ( 1987)....
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...…based on mixtures of standard components, such as normal mixtures, underly mainstream approaches to density estimation, including kernel techniques (Silverman 1986), nonparametric maximum likelihood (Lindsay 1983), and Bayesian approaches using mixtures of Dirichlet processes (Ferguson 1983)....
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...…is the Student-t distribution with s degrees of freedom, mode m, and scale factor ~ ' 1 ~ and M = ( 1 + 7)S/s. Equivalently, using the reduced form (3), we have As discussed by Ferguson ( 1983), there are strong relationships between ( 4 )and standard kernel density estimates (Silverman 1986)....
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