Density estimation by dual ascent of the log-likelihood
Tabak, Esteban G. ; Vanden-Eijnden, Eric
Commun. Math. Sci., Tome 8 (2010) no. 1, p. 217-233 / Harvested from Project Euclid
A methodology is developed to assign, from an observed sample, a joint-probability distribution to a set of continuous variables. The algorithm proposed performs this assignment by mapping the original variables onto a jointly-Gaussian set. The map is built iteratively, ascending the log-likelihood of the observations, through a series of steps that move the marginal distributions along a random set of orthogonal directions towards normality.
Publié le : 2010-03-15
Classification:  Density estimation,  machine learning,  maximum likelihood,  34A50,  65C30,  65L20,  60H35
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Tabak, Esteban G.; Vanden-Eijnden, Eric. Density estimation by dual ascent of the log-likelihood. Commun. Math. Sci., Tome 8 (2010) no. 1, pp.  217-233. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1266935020/