Recent Applications of Variational Techniques in Statistics

Abstract

Recent applications of variational methods to problems of statistical inference are given. The problems of robustness, inadmissibility and penalized maximum likelihood estimates are discussed to exhibit their variational character. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA073511

Entities

People

  • J. S. Rustagi

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Calculus
  • Calculus Of Variations
  • Differential Equations
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Estimators
  • Functional Analysis
  • Optimization
  • Order Statistics
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Statistical Inference
  • Statistics
  • Theorems
  • Variational Methods

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms