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Contents<br />

Zusammenfassung iii<br />

Abstract v<br />

List of Algorithms ix<br />

Acknowledgments xi<br />

Notation xiii<br />

1 Introduction 1<br />

2 <strong>Nonparametric</strong> <strong>Bayesian</strong> Analysis 3<br />

3 Dirichlet Process Mixture <strong>Models</strong> 9<br />

3.1 The Dirichlet Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

3.1.1 Pólya’s Urn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

3.1.2 Chinese Restaurant Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />

3.1.3 DP as a Normalized Gamma Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

3.1.4 Stick Breaking Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

3.1.5 Infinite Mixture <strong>Models</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

3.1.6 Properties of the Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

3.2 MCMC Inference in Dirichlet Process Mixture <strong>Models</strong> . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

3.2.1 Algorithms <strong>for</strong> Conjugate <strong>Models</strong> using the Pólya Urn Scheme . 25<br />

3.2.2 Algorithms <strong>for</strong> non-Conjugate DP <strong>Models</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

3.2.3 Algorithms Using the Stick-Breaking Representation . . . . . . . 34<br />

3.3 Empirical Study on the Choice of the Base Distribution . . . . . . . . . 40<br />

3.3.1 The Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Model . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />

3.3.2 Inference Using Gibbs Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />

3.3.3 Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47<br />

3.3.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />

3.4 Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Factor Analyzers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />

3.4.1 Spike Sorting Using DPMFA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56<br />

3.4.2 Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />

3.4.3 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62<br />

3.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

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