Statistical Distributions (contrib)

Classes representing statistical distributions and ops for working with them.

Classes for statistical distributions

Classes that represent batches of statistical distributions. Each class is initialized with parameters that define the distributions.

Base classes

• tf.contrib.distributions.ReparameterizationType
• tf.contrib.distributions.Distribution

Univariate (scalar) distributions

• tf.contrib.distributions.Binomial
• tf.contrib.distributions.Bernoulli
• tf.contrib.distributions.BernoulliWithSigmoidProbs
• tf.contrib.distributions.Beta
• tf.contrib.distributions.Categorical
• tf.contrib.distributions.Chi2
• tf.contrib.distributions.Chi2WithAbsDf
• tf.contrib.distributions.Exponential
• tf.contrib.distributions.Gamma
• tf.contrib.distributions.InverseGamma
• tf.contrib.distributions.Laplace
• tf.contrib.distributions.LaplaceWithSoftplusScale
• tf.contrib.distributions.Normal
• tf.contrib.distributions.NormalWithSoftplusScale
• tf.contrib.distributions.Poisson
• tf.contrib.distributions.StudentT
• tf.contrib.distributions.StudentTWithAbsDfSoftplusScale
• tf.contrib.distributions.Uniform

Multivariate distributions

Multivariate normal

• tf.contrib.distributions.MultivariateNormalDiag
• tf.contrib.distributions.MultivariateNormalTriL
• tf.contrib.distributions.MultivariateNormalDiagPlusLowRank
• tf.contrib.distributions.MultivariateNormalDiagWithSoftplusScale

Other multivariate distributions

• tf.contrib.distributions.Dirichlet
• tf.contrib.distributions.DirichletMultinomial
• tf.contrib.distributions.Multinomial
• tf.contrib.distributions.WishartCholesky
• tf.contrib.distributions.WishartFull

Multivariate Utilities

• tf.contrib.distributions.matrix_diag_transform

Transformed distributions

• tf.contrib.distributions.TransformedDistribution
• tf.contrib.distributions.QuantizedDistribution

Mixture Models

• tf.contrib.distributions.Mixture

Posterior inference with conjugate priors

Functions that transform conjugate prior/likelihood pairs to distributions representing the posterior or posterior predictive.

Normal likelihood with conjugate prior

• tf.contrib.distributions.normal_conjugates_known_scale_posterior
• tf.contrib.distributions.normal_conjugates_known_scale_predictive

Kullback-Leibler Divergence

• tf.contrib.distributions.kl_divergence
• tf.contrib.distributions.RegisterKL

Utilities

• tf.contrib.distributions.softplus_inverse