Importance sampling as a variational approximation

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2011.02.028MaRDI QIDQ553007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Fielding, David J. Nott, Jia-Liang Li

Publication date 26 July 2011

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.028

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmsBayesian computationimportance samplingKullback-Leibler divergencevariational approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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