TargetScore (version 1.10.0)

vbound: Variational Lower Bound Evaluation

Description

Evaluate variational lower bound to determine when to stop VB-EM iteration (convergence).

Usage

vbound(X, model, prior)

Arguments

X

D x N numeric vector or matrix of N observations (columns) and D variables (rows)

model

List containing model parameters (see vbgmm)

prior

numeric vector or matrix containing the hyperparameters for the prior distributions

Value

A continuous scalar indicating the lower bound (the higher the more converged)

References

Mo Chen (2012). Matlab code for Variational Bayesian Inference for Gaussian Mixture Model. http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35362-variational-bayesian-inference-for-gaussian-mixture-model

Bishop, C. M. (2006). Pattern recognition and machine learning. Springer, Information Science and Statistics. NY, USA. (p474-486)

See Also

vbgmm

Examples

X <- c(rnorm(100,mean=2), rnorm(100,mean=3))
tmp <- vbgmm(X, tol=1e-3)
head(tmp$L) # lower bound should be strictly increasing