Neyman Seminar - Log-concave density estimation with applications

Neyman Seminar - Log-concave density estimation with applications

Neyman Seminar
Oct 16, 2013, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge (Speaker)
The set of log-concave densities on $\mathbb{R}^d$ forms a very attractive infinite-dimensional class. It is large enough to include many standard parametric families and yet it retains many of the desirable properties of Gaussian densities, e.g. closure under marginalisation, conditioning and convolution operations. Importantly, the class is also small enough to allow fully automatic estimation...