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arxiv: 0811.0174 · v1 · submitted 2008-11-02 · 💻 cs.IT · math.IT· stat.CO

A Bit of Information Theory, and the Data Augmentation Algorithm Converges

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The data augmentation (DA) algorithm is a simple and powerful tool in statistical computing. In this note basic information theory is used to prove a nontrivial convergence theorem for the DA algorithm.

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