A variational method for estimating the parameters of MRF from complete or incomplete data

DOI10.1214/AOAP/1177005510MaRDI QIDQ1210486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. P. Almeida, Basilis Gidas

Publication date 4 October 1993

Published in The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aoap/1177005510

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalityGibbs distributionsmaximum pseudo-likelihood methodnumerical experimentsvariational method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes (60J99) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Random fields; image analysis (62M40)

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