PointMass(point)

A PointMass structure represents a delta distribution, a discrete probability distribution where all probability mass is concentrated at a single point. This point is specified by the provided point.

ContinuousUnivariateLogPdf{ D <: DomainSets.Domain, F } <: AbstractContinuousGenericLogPdf

Generic continuous univariate distribution in a form of domain specification and logpdf function. Can be used in cases where no known analytical distribution available.

Arguments

• domain: domain specificatiom from DomainSets.jl package, by default the domain is set to DomainSets.FullSpace(). Use BayesBase.UnspecifiedDomain() to bypass domain checks.
• logpdf: callable object that represents the logdensity. Can be un-normalised.

ContinuousMultivariateLogPdf{ D <: DomainSets.Domain, F } <: AbstractContinuousGenericLogPdf

Generic continuous multivariate distribution in a form of domain specification and logpdf function. Can be used in cases where no known analytical distribution available.

Arguments

• domain: multidimensional domain specification from DomainSets.jl package. Use BayesBase.UnspecifiedDomain() to bypass domain checks.
• logpdf: callable object that accepts an AbstractVector as an input and represents the logdensity. Can be un-normalised.

SampleList

Generic distribution represented as a list of weighted samples.

Arguments

• samples::S
• weights::W: optional, equivalent to fill(1 / N, N) by default, where N is the length of samples container

FactorizedJoint(components)

FactorizedJoint represents a joint distribution of independent random variables. Use component() function or square-brackets indexing to access the marginal distribution for individual variables. Use components() function to get a tuple of multipliers.

MixtureDistribution(components, weights)

A custom mixture distribution implementation, parameterized by:

• C type family of the mixture
• CT the type for the weights

This implementation solves:

• Distributions.jl Issue 1669
• ReactiveMP.jl Issue 253

Contingency(P, renormalize = Val(true))

The contingency distribution is a multivariate generalization of the categorical distribution. As a bivariate distribution, the contingency distribution defines the joint probability over two unit vectors v1 and v2. The parameter P encodes a contingency matrix that specifies the probability of co-occurrence.

v1 ∈ {0, 1}^d1 where Σ_j v1_j = 1
v2 ∈ {0, 1}^d2 where Σ_k v2_k = 1

P ∈ [0, 1]^{d1 × d2}, where Σ_jk P_jk = 1

f(v1, v2, P) = Contingency(out1, out2 | P) = Π_jk P_jk^{v1_j * v2_k}

A Contingency distribution over more than two variables requires higher-order tensors as parameters; these are not implemented in ReactiveMP.

Arguments:

• P, required, contingency matrix
• renormalize, optional, supports either Val(true) or Val(false), specifies whether matrix P must be automatically renormalized. Does not modify the original P and allocates a new one for the renormalized version. If set to false the contingency matrix P must be normalized by hand, otherwise the result of related calculations might be wrong

prod(strategy, left, right)

prod function is used to find a product of two probability distributions (or any other objects) over same variable (e.g. 𝓝(x|μ1, σ1) × 𝓝(x|μ2, σ2)). There are multiple strategies for prod function, e.g. ClosedProd, GenericProd or PreserveTypeProd.

See also: default_prod_rule, ClosedProd, PreserveTypeProd, GenericProd

default_prod_rule(::Type, ::Type)

Returns the most suitable prod rule for two given distribution types. Returns UnspecifiedProd by default.

See also: prod, ClosedProd, GenericProd

UnspecifiedProd

A strategy for the prod function, which does not compute the prod, but instead fails in run-time and prints a descriptive error message.

See also: prod, ClosedProd, GenericProd

ClosedProd

ClosedProd is one of the strategies for prod function. For example, if both inputs are of type Distribution, then ClosedProd would fallback to PreserveTypeProd(Distribution).

See also: prod, PreserveTypeProd, GenericProd

PreserveTypeProd{T}

PreserveTypeProd is one of the strategies for prod function. This strategy constraint an output of a prod to be in some specific form. By default it uses the strategy from default_prod_rule and converts the output to the prespecified type but can be overwritten for some distributions for better performance.

See also: prod, ClosedProd, PreserveTypeLeftProd, PreserveTypeRightProd, GenericProd

PreserveTypeLeftProd

An alias for the PreserveTypeProd(L) where L is the type of the left argument of the prod function.

See also: prod, PreserveTypeProd, PreserveTypeRightProd, GenericProd

PreserveTypeRightProd

An alias for the PreserveTypeProd(R) where R is the type of the right argument of the prod function.

See also: prod, PreserveTypeProd, PreserveTypeLeftProd, GenericProd

GenericProd

GenericProd is one of the strategies for prod function. This strategy does always produces a result, even if the closed form product is not availble, in which case simply returns the ProductOf object. GenericProd sometimes fallbacks to the default_prod_rule which it may or may not use under some circumstances. For example if the default_prod_rule is ClosedProd - GenericProd will try to optimize the tree with analytical closed solutions (if possible).

See also: prod, ProductOf, ClosedProd, PreserveTypeProd, default_prod_rule

ProductOf

A generic structure representing a product of two distributions. Can be viewed as a tuple of (left, right). Does not check nor supports neither variate forms during the creation stage. Uses the fuse_support function to fuse supports of two different distributions.

This object does not define any statistical properties (such as mean or var etc) and cannot be used as a distribution explicitly. Instead, it must be further approximated as a member of some other distribution.

See also: prod, GenericProd, fuse_supports

LinearizedProductOf

An efficient linearized implementation of product of multiple distributions. This structure prevents ProductOf tree from growing too much in case of identical objects. This trick significantly reduces Julia compilation times when closed product rules are not available but distributions are of the same type. Essentially this structure linearizes leaves of the ProductOf tree in case if it sees objects of the same type (via dispatch).

See also: ProductOf, [GenericProd]

TerminalProdArgument(argument)

TerminalProdArgument is a specialized wrapper structure. When used as an argument to the prod function, it returns itself without considering any product strategy and does not perform any safety checks (e.g. variate_form or support). Attempting to calculate the product of two instances of TerminalProdArgument will raise an error. Use .argument field to get the underlying wrapped argument.

resolve_prod_strategy(left, right)

Given two strategies, this function returns the one with higher priority, if possible.

deep_eltype(T)

Returns:

• deep_eltype of T if T is an AbstractArray container
• T otherwise

julia> deep_eltype(Float64)
Float64

julia> deep_eltype(Vector{Float64})
Float64

julia> deep_eltype(Vector{Matrix{Vector{Float64}}})
Float64

isequal_typeof(left, right)

Alias for typeof(left) === typeof(right), but can be specialized.

paramfloattype(distribution)

Returns the underlying float type of distribution's parameters.

See also: promote_paramfloattype, convert_paramfloattype

sampletype(distribution)

Returns a type of the distribution. By default fallbacks to the eltype.

See also: samplefloattype, promote_sampletype, promote_samplefloattype

samplefloattype(distribution)

Returns a type of the distribution or the underlying float type in case if sample is Multivariate or Matrixvariate. By default fallbacks to the deep_eltype(sampletype(distribution)).

See also: sampletype, promote_sampletype, promote_samplefloattype

promote_variate_type(::Type{ <: VariateForm }, distribution_type)

Promotes (if possible) a distribution_type to be of the specified variate form.

promote_paramfloattype(distributions...)

Promotes paramfloattype of the distributions to a single type. See also promote_type.

See also: paramfloattype, convert_paramfloattype

promote_sampletype(distributions...)

Promotes sampletype of the distributions to a single type. See also promote_type.

See also: sampletype, samplefloattype, promote_samplefloattype

promote_samplefloattype(distributions...)

Promotes samplefloattype of the distributions to a single type. See also promote_type.

See also: sampletype, samplefloattype, promote_sampletype

convert_paramfloattype(::Type{T}, distribution)

Converts (if possible) the params float type of the distribution to be of type T.

See also: paramfloattype, promote_paramfloattype

convert_paramfloattype(::Type{T}, container)

Converts (if possible) the elements of the container to be of type T.

mirrorlog(x)

Returns log(1 - x).

xtlog(x)

Returns x * log(x).

logmvbeta(x)

Uses the numerically stable algorithm to compute the logarithm of the multivariate beta distribution over with the parameter vector x.

clamplog(x)

Same as log but clamps the input argument x to be in the range tiny <= x <= typemax(x) such that log(0) does not explode.

mvtrigamma(p, x)

Computes multivariate trigamma function .

dtanh(x)

Alias for 1 - tanh(x) ^ 2

probvec(d)

Returns the probability vector of the given distribution.

Alias for (mean(d), std(d)), but can be specialized.

Alias for (mean(d), var(d)), but can be specialized.

Alias for (mean(d), cov(d)), but can be specialized.

Alias for (mean(d), invcov(d)), but can be specialized.

Alias for mean_invcov(d), but can be specialized.

weightedmean(d)

Returns the weighted mean of the given distribution. Alias to invcov(d) * mean(d), but can be specialized

Alias for (weightedmean(d), std(d)), but can be specialized.

Alias for (weightedmean(d), var(d)), but can be specialized.

Alias for (weightedmean(d), cov(d)), but can be specialized.

Alias for weightedmean_invcov(d), but can be specialized.

vague(distribution_type, [ dims... ])

Returns uninformative probability distribution of the given type.

logpdf_sampling_optimized(d)

logpdf_sample_optimized function takes as an input a distribution d and returns corresponding optimized two versions for taking logpdf() and sampling with rand! respectively. Alias for (logpdf_optimized(d), sampling_optimized(d)), but can be specialized.

logpdf_optimized(d)

Returns a version of d specifically optimized to call logpdf(d, x). By default returns the same d, but can be specialized.

sampling_optimized(d)

Returns a version of d specifically optimized to call rand and rand!. By default returns the same d, but can be specialized.

fuse_supports(left, right)

Fuses supports left and right. By default, checks that the inputs are identical and throws an error otherwise. Can implement specific fusions for specific supports.

Unknown domain that is used as a placeholder when exact domain knowledge is unavailable

Unknown dimension is equal and not equal to any number

Strips type parameters from the type of the distribution.

CountingReal

CountingReal implements a real "number" that counts 'infinities' in a separate field. See also BayesBase.Infinity and BayesBase.MinusInfinity.

Arguments

• value::T: value of type <: Real
• infinities::Int: number of added/subtracted infinities

julia> r = BayesBase.CountingReal(0.0, 0)
CountingReal{Float64}(0.0, 0)

julia> float(r)
0.0

julia> r = r + BayesBase.Infinity(Float64)
CountingReal{Float64}(0.0, 1)

julia> float(r)
Inf

julia> r = r + BayesBase.MinusInfinity(Float64)
CountingReal{Float64}(0.0, 0)

julia> float(r)
0.0

An object representing infinity.

An object representing minus infinity.