Monte Carlo integration in discrete undirected probabilistic models

This thesis contains the author’s work in and contributions to the field of Monte Carlo sampling for undirected graphical models, a class of statistical model commonly used in machine learning, computer vision, and spatial statistics; the aim is to be able to use the methodology and resultant sample...

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Main Author: Hamze, Firas
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/744