November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 54m
English
The Gaussian process (GP) can be thought of as an alternative Bayesian approach to regression problems. They are also referred to as infinite dimensional Gaussian distributions. GP defines a priori over functions that can be converted into a posteriori once we have observed a few data points. Although it doesn’t seem possible to define distributions over functions, it turns out that we only need to define distributions over a function's values at observed data points.
Formally, let's say that we observed a function,
, at n values as . The function is a GP if all of the values, , are jointly Gaussian, with a mean ...
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