bdm::MixEF Class Reference

#include <mixef.h>

Inheritance diagram for bdm::MixEF:

List of all members.

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Detailed Description

Mixture of Exponential Family Densities.

An approximate estimation method for models with latent discrete variable, such as mixture models of the following kind:

where is a known function of past outputs, are component weights, and component parameters are assumed to be mutually independent. is an aggregation af all component parameters and weights, i.e. .

The characteristic feature of this model is that if the exact values of the latent variable were known, estimation of the parameters can be handled by a single model. For example, for the case of mixture models, posterior density for each component parameters would be a BayesianModel from Exponential Family.

This class uses EM-style type algorithms for estimation of its parameters. Under this simplification, the posterior density is a product of exponential family members, hence under EM-style approximate estimation this class itself belongs to the exponential family.

TODO: Extend BM to use rvc.

Public Member Functions
	MixEF (const Array< BMEF * > &Coms0, const vec &alpha0)
	Full constructor.
	MixEF ()
	Constructor of empty mixture.
	MixEF (const MixEF &M2)
	Copy constructor.
void	init (BMEF *Com0, const mat &Data, int c=5)
void	bayes (const vec &dt)
	Recursive EM-like algorithm (QB-variant), see Karny et. al, 2006.
void	bayes (const mat &dt)
	EM algorithm.
void	bayesB (const mat &dt, const vec &wData)
double	logpred (const vec &dt) const
const epdf &	posterior () const
const eprod *	_e () const
emix *	epredictor () const
	Constructs a predictive density .
void	flatten (const BMEF *M2)
	Flatten the density as if it was not estimated from the data.
BMEF *	_Coms (int i)
	Access function.
void	set_method (MixEF_METHOD M)
	Set which method is to be used.
virtual void	set_statistics (const BMEF *BM0)
	get statistics from another model
virtual void	bayes (const vec &data, const double w)
	Weighted update of sufficient statistics (Bayes rule).
BMEF *	_copy_ (bool changerv=false)
	Flatten the posterior as if to keep nu0 data.
Constructors
virtual BM *	_copy_ ()
Mathematical operations
virtual void	bayesB (const mat &Dt)
	Batch Bayes rule (columns of Dt are observations).
vec	logpred_m (const mat &dt) const
	Matrix version of logpred.
virtual mpdf *	predictor () const
	Constructs a conditional density 1-step ahead predictor.
Access to attributes
const RV &	_drv () const
void	set_drv (const RV &rv)
void	set_rv (const RV &rv)
double	_ll () const
void	set_evalll (bool evl0)
Protected Member Functions
void	build_est ()
	Auxiliary function for use in constructors.
Protected Attributes
int	n
	Number of components.
Array< BMEF * >	Coms
	Models for Components of .
multiBM	weights
	Statistics for weights.
eprod *	est
	Posterior on component parameters.
MixEF_METHOD	method
	Flag for a method that is used in the inference.
double	frg
	forgetting factor
double	last_lognc
	cached value of lognc() in the previous step (used in evaluation of ll )
RV	drv
	Random variable of the data (optional).
double	ll
	Logarithm of marginalized data likelihood.
bool	evalll
	If true, the filter will compute likelihood of the data record and store it in ll . Set to false if you want to save computational time.

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Member Function Documentation

void bdm::MixEF::init	(	BMEF *	Com0,
		const mat &	Data,
		int	c = 5
	)

Initializing the mixture by a random pick of centroids from data

Parameters:

	Com0	Initial component - necessary to determine its type.
	Data	Data on which the initialization will be done
	c	Initial number of components, default=5

References bdm::BMEF::_copy_(), build_est(), Coms, est, n, bdm::multiBM::set_parameters(), and weights.

Referenced by bdm::merger::merge().

double bdm::MixEF::logpred

(

const vec &

dt

)

const [virtual]

Evaluates predictive log-likelihood of the given data record I.e. marginal likelihood of the data with the posterior integrated out.

Reimplemented from bdm::BM.

References Coms, bdm::epdf::mean(), bdm::multiBM::posterior(), and weights.

Referenced by bdm::merger::evallog(), and bdm::merger::merge().

virtual BM* bdm::BM::_copy_

(

)

[inline, virtual, inherited]

Copy function required in vectors, Arrays of BM etc. Have to be DELETED manually! Prototype:

 BM* _copy_(){return new BM(*this);} 

Reimplemented in bdm::ARX.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• mixef.h
• mixef.cpp