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title: 'NeuralEstimators: Likelihood-Free Parameter Estimation using Neural Networks'
version: 0.1.1
doi: 10.1080/00031305.2023.2249522
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  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.NeuralEstimators
abstract: An 'R' interface to the 'Julia' package 'NeuralEstimators.jl'. The package
  facilitates the user-friendly development of neural point estimators, which are
  neural networks that map data to a point summary of the posterior distribution.
  These estimators are likelihood-free and amortised, in the sense that, after an
  initial setup cost, inference from observed data can be made in a fraction of the
  time required by conventional approaches; see Sainsbury-Dale, Zammit-Mangion, and
  Huser (2024) <https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2023.2249522> for further details
  and an accessible introduction. The package also enables the construction of neural
  networks that approximate the likelihood-to-evidence ratio in an amortised manner,
  allowing one to perform inference based on the likelihood function or the entire
  posterior distribution; see Zammit-Mangion, Sainsbury-Dale, and Huser (2024, Sec.
  5.2) <https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.12484>, and the references therein. The
  package accommodates any model for which simulation is feasible by allowing the
  user to implicitly define their model through simulated data.
authors:
- family-names: Sainsbury-Dale
  given-names: Matthew
  email: msainsburydale@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: Likelihood-Free Parameter Estimation with Neural Bayes Estimators
  authors:
  - name: Matthew Sainsbury-Dale
  - name: Andrew Zammit-Mangion
  - name: Raphael Huser
  journal: The American Statistician
  year: '2024'
  volume: '78'
  doi: 10.1080/00031305.2023.2249522
  start: '1'
  end: '14'
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NeuralEstimators
date-released: '2024-11-03'
contact:
- family-names: Sainsbury-Dale
  given-names: Matthew
  email: msainsburydale@gmail.com