PosteriorBootstrap - Non-Parametric Sampling with Parallel Monte Carlo
An implementation of a non-parametric statistical model
using a parallelised Monte Carlo sampling scheme. The method
implemented in this package allows non-parametric inference to
be regularized for small sample sizes, while also being more
accurate than approximations such as variational Bayes. The
concentration parameter is an effective sample size parameter,
determining the faith we have in the model versus the data.
When the concentration is low, the samples are close to the
exact Bayesian logistic regression method; when the
concentration is high, the samples are close to the simplified
variational Bayes logistic regression. The method is described
in full in the paper Lyddon, Walker, and Holmes (2018),
"Nonparametric learning from Bayesian models with randomized
objective functions" <arXiv:1806.11544>.