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iterLap

Approximate Probability Densities by Iterated Laplace Approximations

The iterLap (iterated Laplace approximation) algorithm approximates a general (possibly non-normalized) probability density on R^p, by repeated Laplace approximations to the difference between current approximation and true density (on log scale). The final approximation is a mixture of multivariate normal distributions and might be used for example as a proposal distribution for importance sampling (eg in Bayesian applications). The algorithm can be seen as a computational generalization of the Laplace approximation suitable for skew or multimodal densities.

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1.1-4 rolling linux/jammy R-4.5 iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 68.6 KiB
1.1-4 rolling linux/noble R-4.5 iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 68.6 KiB
1.1-4 rolling source/ R- iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 11.5 KiB
1.1-4 latest linux/jammy R-4.5 iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 68.6 KiB
1.1-4 latest linux/noble R-4.5 iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 68.6 KiB
1.1-4 latest source/ R- iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 11.5 KiB
1.1-4 2026-04-26 source/ R- iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 11.5 KiB
1.1-4 2026-04-23 source/ R- iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 11.5 KiB
1.1-4 2026-04-09 windows/windows R-4.5 iterLap_1.1-4.zip 75.3 KiB
1.1-4 2025-04-20 source/ R- iterLap_1.1-4.tar.gz 11.5 KiB

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