Stochastic Binary Variable

A Stochastic Binary Variable is a Stochastic Variable that is a Binary Variable.

• AKA: Bernoulli Variable.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Stochastic n-Ary Variable.
• See: Binomial Stochastic Process.

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References

2006

• (Hinton et al., 2006) ⇒ Geoffrey E. Hinton, Simon Osindero, and Yee-Whye Teh. (2006). “A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets.” In: Neural Computation Journal, 18(7). doi:10.1162/neco.2006.18.7.1527
  • QUOTE: A logistic belief net (Neal, 1992) is composed of stochastic binary units.

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