| Type: | Package | 
| Title: | Efficiently Using Gaussian Processes with Rcpp and RcppEigen | 
| Version: | 1.2 | 
| Date: | 2016-02-01 | 
| Author: | Giri Gopalan, Luke Bornn | 
| Maintainer: | Giri Gopalan <gopalan88@gmail.com> | 
| Description: | Contains Rcpp and RcppEigen implementations of matrix operations useful for Gaussian process models, such as the inversion of a symmetric Toeplitz matrix, sampling from multivariate normal distributions, evaluation of the log-density of a multivariate normal vector, and Bayesian inference for latent variable Gaussian process models with elliptical slice sampling (Murray, Adams, and MacKay 2010). | 
| License: | GPL-2 | 
| Imports: | Rcpp, MASS, mvtnorm, rbenchmark, stats | 
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp, RcppEigen | 
| Repository: | CRAN | 
| NeedsCompilation: | yes | 
| Packaged: | 2016-02-02 02:45:13 UTC; giridhargopalan | 
| Date/Publication: | 2016-02-02 12:27:14 | 
Sampling from a Bayesian model with a multivariate normal prior distribution
Description
This function uses elliptical slice sampling to sample from a Bayesian model in which the prior is multivariate normal (JMLR Murray, Adams, and MacKay 2010)
Usage
ess(log.lik,Y, Sig, N_mcmc,burn_in,N,flag)
Arguments
| log.lik | Log-lik function in model which is assumed to take two arguments: the first contains the parameters/latent variables and the second the observed data Y | 
| Y | Observed data. | 
| Sig | Covariance matrix associated with the prior distribution on the parameters/latent variable vector. | 
| N_mcmc | Number of desired mcmc samples. | 
| burn_in | Number of burn-in iterations. | 
| N | Dimensionality of parameter/latent variable vector. | 
| flag | Set to TRUE for MASS implementation of mvrnorm (which may be more stable but slow), FALSE for FastGP implementation of rcpp_rmvnorm (which is faster but less stable) | 
Author(s)
Giri Gopalan gopalan88@gmail.com
Examples
# See demo/FastGPdemo.r.
Matrix Operations Using Rcpp and RcppEigen
Description
Performs useful matrix operations using Rcpp and RcppEigen.
Usage
rcppeigen_invert_matrix(A)
rcppeigen_get_det(A)
rcppeigen_get_chol(A)
rcppeigen_get_chol_stable(A)
rcppeigen_get_chol_diag(A)
tinv(A)
Arguments
| A | Matrix to perform operation on. | 
Details
Functions with "rcppeigen" directly call RcppEigen implementations of the associated functions; rcppeigen_get_chol_stable retrieves L and rcppeigen_get_chol_diag(A) retrieves D in A = LDL^T form, whereas rcppeigen_get_chol(A) retrieves L in A = LL^T form.  Thanks to Jared Knowles who pointed out that the former variant is more stable (with a potential speed trade-off) and has found it useful for his package merTools.  tinv inverts a symmetric Toeplitz matrix using methods from Trench and Durbin from "Matrix Computations" by Golub and Van Loan using Rcpp.
Author(s)
gopalan88@gmail.com
Examples
# See demo/FastGPdemo.R
Multivariate Normal Sampling and Log-Density Evaluation
Description
These functions allow for the sampling of and evaluation of the log-density of a multivariate normal vector.
Usage
rcpp_log_dmvnorm(S,mu,x, istoep)
rcpp_rmvnorm(n,S,mu)
rcpp_rmvnorm_stable(n,S,mu)
Arguments
| S | Covariance matrix of associated multivariate normal. | 
| n | Number of (independent) samples to generate. | 
| mu | Mean vector. | 
| x | Vector of observations to evaluate the log-density of. | 
| istoep | set this to  | 
Author(s)
Giri Gopalan gopalan88@gmail.com
Examples
#See demo/FastGPdemo.R