breeze.stats.distributions.HasConjugatePrior.scala Maven / Gradle / Ivy
package breeze.stats.distributions
/*
Copyright 2009 David Hall, Daniel Ramage
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/**
* Trait representing conjugate priors. See Dirichlet for an example.
*
* @author dlwh
*/
trait HasConjugatePrior[Likelihood <: Measure[T], T] extends ExponentialFamily[Likelihood,T] {
type ConjugatePrior <: Measure[Parameter]
val conjugateFamily: ExponentialFamily[ConjugatePrior,Parameter]
/**
* Returns a distribtution over T's after integrating out the intermediate distributions.
*/
def predictive(parameter: conjugateFamily.Parameter) : Measure[T]
/**
* Gives a new parameter for this conjugate prior after observing the evidence. See Dirichlet for an example.
*/
def posterior(prior: conjugateFamily.Parameter, evidence : TraversableOnce[T]): conjugateFamily.Parameter
}