Prepaid parameter estimation without likelihoods.

In various fields, statistical models of interest are analytically intractable and inference is usually performed using a simulation-based method. However elegant these methods are, they are often painstakingly slow and convergence is difficult to assess. As a result, statistical inference is greatl...

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Main Authors: Merijn Mestdagh, Stijn Verdonck, Kristof Meers, Tim Loossens, Francis Tuerlinckx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007181