/// <summary> /// Evidence message for VMP /// </summary> /// <param name="sample">Incoming message from 'sample'. Must be a proper distribution. If any element is uniform, the result will be uniform.</param> /// <param name="probsTrue">Constant value for 'probsTrue'.</param> /// <param name="MeanLog">Buffer 'MeanLog'.</param> /// <param name="MeanLogOneMinus">Buffer 'MeanLogOneMinus'.</param> /// <returns>Average of the factor's log-value across the given argument distributions</returns> /// <remarks><para> /// The formula for the result is <c>sum_(sample) p(sample) log(factor(sample,probsTrue))</c>. /// Adding up these values across all factors and variables gives the log-evidence estimate for VMP. /// </para></remarks> /// <exception cref="ImproperMessageException"><paramref name="sample"/> is not a proper distribution</exception> public static double AverageLogFactor([Proper] SparseBernoulliListBase sample, SparseVector probsTrue, SparseVector MeanLog, SparseVector MeanLogOneMinus) { return(AverageLogFactor(sample, SparseBetaList.PointMass(probsTrue), MeanLog, MeanLogOneMinus)); }