User profiles for R. Neal

Radford Neal

- Verified email at utstat.toronto.edu - Cited by 48942

Richard Neal

- Verified email at exeter.ac.uk - Cited by 14429

Markov chain sampling methods for Dirichlet process mixture models

RM Neal - Journal of computational and graphical statistics, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
… Notation of the form p R + (1 -p)S, where R and S are distributions, represents the distribution
that is the mixture of R and S, with proportions p and 1 -p, respectively. Equivalent models …

[HTML][HTML] Is increased time to diagnosis and treatment in symptomatic cancer associated with poorer outcomes? Systematic review

RD Neal, P Tharmanathan, B France, NU Din… - British journal of …, 2015 - nature.com
Background: It is unclear whether more timely cancer diagnosis brings favourable outcomes,
with much of the previous evidence, in some cancers, being equivocal. We set out to …

The expanding role of primary care in cancer control

…, U Macleod, R Mason, G Mitchell, RD Neal… - The lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
The nature of cancer control is changing, with an increasing emphasis, fuelled by public and
political demand, on prevention, early diagnosis, and patient experience during and after …

[PDF][PDF] Near Shannon limit performance of low density parity check codes

DJC MacKay, RM Neal - Electronics letters, 1997 - docs.switzernet.com
… at least R ≡ K/N, where K = N − M. We report results on the assumption that the rate is R. The
… If one communicates using a code of rate R then it is conventional to describe the signal to …

MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics

RM Neal - Handbook of markov chain monte carlo, 2011 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… in some region R of (q, p) space, with volume V, the image of R under Ts will also have …
I will use my work on Bayesian neural network models (Neal, 1996a) as an example. Such …

[BOOK][B] Bayesian learning for neural networks

RM Neal - 2012 - books.google.com
… I have applied mixture models with infinite numbers of components to small data sets (Neal
1992a); the infinite model can in this case be implemented with finite resources. Nevertheless…

A view of the EM algorithm that justifies incremental, sparse, and other variants

RM Neal, GE Hinton - Learning in graphical models, 1998 - Springer
The EM algorithm performs maximum likelihood estimation for data in which some variables
are unobserved. We present a function that resembles negative free energy and show that …

Arithmetic coding for data compression

IH Witten, RM Neal, JG Cleary - Communications of the ACM, 1987 - dl.acm.org
The state of the art in data compression is arithmetic coding, not the better-known Huffman
method. Arithmetic coding gives greater compression, is faster for adaptive models, and …

Slice sampling

RM Neal - The annals of statistics, 2003 - projecteuclid.org
… As Neal mentions, the computational efficiency of our “black-box” sampler RDIP depends
on the normalization constant. Our goal was to be automatic and reasonably efficient, rather …

[PDF][PDF] Probabilistic inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

RM Neal - 1993 - cs.princeton.edu
… to maximum likelihood learning of belief networks (Neal, 2:1992b). … to some of the
same problems (Neal, 2:1992a, 2:1992c, 2:1993a). … I discuss this point further in (Neal, 2:1993b). …