EbayesThresh: Empirical Bayes thresholding and related methods

This package carries out Empirical Bayes thresholding using the methods developed by I. M. Johnstone and B. W. Silverman. The basic problem is to estimate a mean vector given a vector of observations of the mean vector plus white noise, taking advantage of possible sparsity in the mean vector. Within a Bayesian formulation, the elements of the mean vector are modelled as having, independently, a distribution that is a mixture of an atom of probability at zero and a suitable hevay-tailed distribution. The mixing parameter can be estimated by a marginal maximum likelihood approach. This leads to an adaptive thresholding approach on the original data. Extensions of the basic method, in particular to wavelet thresholding, are also implemented within the package.

Version: 1.3.0
Date: 2005-03-24
Author: Bernard W. Silverman
Maintainer: Bernard W. Silverman <bernard.silverman at spc.ox.ac.uk>
License: GPL version 2 or newer
URL: http://www.bernardsilverman.com
In views: Bayesian
CRAN checks: EbayesThresh results

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Package source: EbayesThresh_1.3.0.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: EbayesThresh_1.3.0.tgz
Windows binary: EbayesThresh_1.3.0.zip
Reference manual: EbayesThresh.pdf