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Edward I. George

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Exponential and bayesian conjugate families: Review and extensions

1997

The notion of a conjugate family of distributions plays a very important role in the Bayesian approach to parametric inference. One of the main features of such a family is that it is closed under sampling, but a conjugate family often provides prior distributions which are tractable in various other respects. This paper is concerned with the properties of conjugate families for exponential family models. Special attention is given to the class of natural exponential families having a quadratic variance function, for which the theory is particularly fruitful. Several classes of conjugate families have been considered in the literature and here we describe some of their most interesting feat…

Statistics and ProbabilityMathematical optimizationClass (set theory)Exponential familyQuadratic equationBayesian probabilityApplied mathematicsStatistics Probability and UncertaintyBayesian inferenceExponential functionConjugateVariance functionMathematicsTest
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Statistical inference and Monte Carlo algorithms

1996

This review article looks at a small part of the picture of the interrelationship between statistical theory and computational algorithms, especially the Gibbs sampler and the Accept-Reject algorithm. We pay particular attention to how the methodologies affect and complement each other.

Statistics and ProbabilityDecision theoryMonte Carlo methodMarkov chain Monte CarloStatistics::ComputationComplement (complexity)symbols.namesakeStatistical inferencesymbolsMonte Carlo method in statistical physicsStatistics Probability and UncertaintyStatistical theoryAlgorithmGibbs samplingMathematicsTest
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