"MAP estimate estimate"
Mar. 25th, 2009 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gusl(That's not a typo)
Standard Bayesian setting: suppose you have a large space of parameter values, one of which is the MAP estimate. While you search, you keep track of the best one found so far. This incumbent may be called the "MAP estimate estimate". The first "estimate" derives from sampling noise (which goes away with infinite data), and the second "estimate" from "search noise" (which goes away with infinite computation time).
I think the first usage should take precedence... so what's a good word for the second kind of "estimate", due to "search noise"?
Standard Bayesian setting: suppose you have a large space of parameter values, one of which is the MAP estimate. While you search, you keep track of the best one found so far. This incumbent may be called the "MAP estimate estimate". The first "estimate" derives from sampling noise (which goes away with infinite data), and the second "estimate" from "search noise" (which goes away with infinite computation time).
I think the first usage should take precedence... so what's a good word for the second kind of "estimate", due to "search noise"?