Package csb :: Package statistics :: Module scalemixture :: Class GammaPosteriorSampler
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Class GammaPosteriorSampler

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            object --+        
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 pdf.AbstractEstimator --+    
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ScaleMixturePriorEstimator --+
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                            GammaPosteriorSampler

Nested Classes

Inherited from pdf.AbstractEstimator: __metaclass__

Instance Methods
 
__init__(self)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature
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AbstractDensity
estimate(self, context, data)
Generate samples from the posterior of alpha and beta.
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get_scale_estimator(self)
Return an appropriate estimator for the scales of the mixture distribution under this prior.
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Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

Class Variables
  __abstractmethods__ = frozenset([])
Properties

Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

__init__(self)
(Constructor)

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x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature

Overrides: object.__init__
(inherited documentation)

estimate(self, context, data)

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Generate samples from the posterior of alpha and beta.

For beta the posterior is a gamma distribution and analytically acessible.

The posterior of alpha can not be expressed analytically and is aproximated using adaptive rejection sampling.

Parameters:
  • context - context distribution
  • data - sample values
Returns: AbstractDensity
a new distribution, initialized with the estimated parameters
Raises:
Overrides: pdf.AbstractEstimator.estimate

get_scale_estimator(self)

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Return an appropriate estimator for the scales of the mixture distribution under this prior.

Overrides: ScaleMixturePriorEstimator.get_scale_estimator
(inherited documentation)