An 'R' interface to the 'Julia' package 'NeuralEstimators.jl'. The package facilitates the user-friendly development of neural Bayes estimators, which are neural networks that map data to a point summary of the posterior distribution (Sainsbury-Dale et al., 2024, <doi:10.1080/00031305.2023.2249522>). These estimators are likelihood-free and amortised, in the sense that, once the neural networks are trained on simulated data, inference from observed data can be made in a fraction of the time required by conventional approaches. The package also supports amortised Bayesian or frequentist inference using neural networks that approximate the posterior or likelihood-to-evidence ratio (Zammit-Mangion et al., 2025, Sec. 3.2, 5.2, <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2404.12484>). The package accommodates any model for which simulation is feasible by allowing users to define models implicitly through simulated data.
| Version: | 0.2.0 |
| Imports: | JuliaConnectoR, magrittr |
| Suggests: | dplyr, ggplot2, ggplotify, ggpubr, gridExtra, knitr, rmarkdown, markdown, R.rsp, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2025-03-02 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.NeuralEstimators |
| Author: | Matthew Sainsbury-Dale [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Matthew Sainsbury-Dale <msainsburydale at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: | https://github.com/msainsburydale/NeuralEstimators, https://msainsburydale.github.io/NeuralEstimators.jl/dev/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| SystemRequirements: | Julia (>= 1.11) |
| Citation: | NeuralEstimators citation info |
| Materials: | README |
| CRAN checks: | NeuralEstimators results |
| Reference manual: | NeuralEstimators.html , NeuralEstimators.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Introduction to NeuralEstimators (source) NeuralEstimators with Incomplete Gridded Data (source) |
| Package source: | NeuralEstimators_0.2.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: NeuralEstimators_0.2.0.zip, r-release: NeuralEstimators_0.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: NeuralEstimators_0.2.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): NeuralEstimators_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): NeuralEstimators_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): NeuralEstimators_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): NeuralEstimators_0.2.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | NeuralEstimators archive |
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