Laplace's Method

The idea behind the Laplace approximation is simple. We assume that an unnormalized probability density P * (x), whose normalizing constant Z P ≡ P * (x) dx (27.1) is of interest, has a peak at a point x 0. We Taylor-expand the logarithm of P * (x)

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