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Beta Hierarchy #157
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Beta Hierarchy #157
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This is what I am looking for. You can also use the prior form Kottas (2006) which is It would be interesting to compare as he suggests |
Also do you have an example for running this? |
Just tried to build this PR and does not build
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@jdtuck Thank you for checking this out. Some |
Awesome, I will check it out later this week. |
built on my end, will try to test it soon. |
@mberaha do you have a test example that I can compare with. I am having trouble
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sorry for the latency, will try to work on it asap |
Hey @jdtuck sorry for the delay. I ran some tests and it looks fine to me. See the snippet below for a minimal working example through the Python interface
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Seems all good with proper DOCS. @mberaha, please merge at will.
This PR implements a Beta mixture kernel where the parameters of the Beta distribution are given independent Gamma priors. This allows using models of the kind
(or any variation including Pitman-Yor process, MFM, truncated stickbreaking..) where
The resulting hierarchy is not conjugate and is sampled using a simple Random Walk Updater, which works well in my experience.
Upon merging, this closes #156.
TODO: