Posts Tagged ‘ method of moments ’

twilight zone [of statistics]

February 25, 2016
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twilight zone [of statistics]

“I have decided that mixtures, like tequila, are inherently evil and should be avoided at all costs.” L. Wasserman Larry Wasserman once remarked that finite mixtures were like the twilight zone of statistics, thanks to the numerous idiosyncrasies associated with such models. And George Casella had similar strong reservations about mixture estimation. Avi Feller and […]

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Moment conditions and Bayesian nonparametrics

August 5, 2015
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Moment conditions and Bayesian nonparametrics

Luke Bornn, Neil Shephard, and Reza Solgi (all from Harvard) have arXived a pretty interesting paper on simulating targets on a zero measure set. Although it is not initially presented this way, but rather in non-parametric terms as moment conditions where θ is the parameter of the sampling distribution, constrained by the value of β. (Which […]

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