regMMD: An R package for parametric estimation and regression with maximum mean discrepancy
By: Pierre Alquier, Mathieu Gerber
Potential Business Impact:
Finds best settings for computer models.
The Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) is a kernel-based metric widely used for nonparametric tests and estimation. Recently, it has also been studied as an objective function for parametric estimation, as it has been shown to yield robust estimators. We have implemented MMD minimization for parameter inference in a wide range of statistical models, including various regression models, within an R package called regMMD. This paper provides an introduction to the regMMD package. We describe the available kernels and optimization procedures, as well as the default settings. Detailed applications to simulated and real data are provided.
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