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1.4     ! takayama    1: %% $OpenXM: OpenXM/src/R/r-packages/hgm/man/hgm-package.Rd,v 1.3 2013/02/08 02:59:42 takayama Exp $
1.1       takayama    2: \name{hgm-package}
                      3: \alias{hgm-package}
1.2       takayama    4: \alias{HGM}
1.1       takayama    5: \alias{hgm}
                      6: \docType{package}
                      7: \title{
                      8: HGM
                      9: }
                     10: \description{
1.2       takayama   11: The holonomic gradient method (HGM, hgm) gives a way to evaluate normalization
1.1       takayama   12:   constants of unnormalized probability distributions by utilizing holonomic
1.2       takayama   13:   systems of differential equations.
                     14:   The holonomic gradient descent (HGD, hgd) gives a method
                     15:   to find maximal likelihood estimates by utilizing the HGM.
1.1       takayama   16: }
                     17: \details{
                     18: \tabular{ll}{
                     19: Package: \tab hgm\cr
                     20: Type: \tab Package\cr
                     21: Version: \tab 1.0\cr
                     22: Date: \tab 2013-02-07\cr
1.2       takayama   23: License: \tab GPL-2\cr
1.1       takayama   24: LazyLoad: \tab yes\cr
                     25: }
1.2       takayama   26: The HGM and HGD are proposed in the paper below.
                     27: This method based on the fact that a broad class of normalization constants
                     28: of unnormalized probability distributions belongs to the class of
                     29: holonomic functions, which are solutions of holonomic systems of linear
                     30: partial differential equations.
1.1       takayama   31: }
                     32: \author{
1.2       takayama   33: \itemize{
                     34: \item Nobuki Takayama (takayama@math.kobe-u.ac.jp)
                     35: }
                     36: }
                     37: \note{
                     38:   This package includes a small subset of the Gnu scientific library codes
                     39:   (\url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/}).
                     40:   Then, it might cause a conflict with the package gsl
                     41:   (see \code{\link[gsl]{gsl-package}}).
1.3       takayama   42: %  When you use the package gsl, it is recommeded to unload the shared libraries
                     43: %  of the package hgm by \code{library.dynam.unload("hgm")}<--error, todo.
                     44: %  (see \code{\link[base]{library.dynam.unload}}).
1.1       takayama   45: }
                     46: \references{
1.2       takayama   47: \itemize{
                     48: \item  Hiromasa Nakayama, Kenta Nishiyama, Masayuki Noro, Katsuyoshi Ohara,
                     49:   Tomonari Sei, Nobuki Takayama, Akimichi Takemura,
                     50: Holonomic Gradient Descent  and its Application to Fisher-Bingham Integral,
                     51: Advances in Applied Mathematics 47 (2011), 639--658,
                     52: \url{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aam.2011.03.001}
                     53:
                     54: \item  \url{http://www.openxm.org}
                     55: }
1.1       takayama   56: }
                     57: \keyword{ package }
1.2       takayama   58: \keyword{ holonomic gradient method}
                     59: \keyword{ holonomic gradient descent}
                     60: \keyword{ HGM }
                     61: \keyword{ HGD }
1.1       takayama   62: \seealso{
                     63: \code{\link{hgm.so3nc}}
1.4     ! takayama   64: \code{\link{hgm.cwishart}}
1.1       takayama   65: }
                     66: \examples{
                     67: \dontrun{
                     68: example(hgm.so3nc)
1.4     ! takayama   69: example(hgm.cwishart)
1.1       takayama   70: }
                     71: }