marg.likelihood: Calculating the marginal likelihood

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References

Description

Calculating the marginal likelihood.

Usage

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marg.likelihood(penden.env,pen.likelihood)

Arguments

penden.env

Containing all information, environment of pendensity()

pen.likelihood

penalized log likelihood

Details

Calculating is done using a Laplace approximation for the integral of the marginal likelihood.

The needed values are saved in the environment.

Value

Returning the marginal likelihood.

Author(s)

Christian Schellhase <cschellhase@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>

References

Density Estimation with a Penalized Mixture Approach, Schellhase C. and Kauermann G. (2012), Computational Statistics 27 (4), p. 757-777.


pendensity documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:58 a.m.