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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2013 Apr 4;46(3):480–496. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.03.008

Algorithm 1.

Intra-site Posterior update in EXPLORER

1: Initialize : each approximate likelihood function fij(βj) and approximate posterior q(βj)=mhjBj(βj)i=mj-1+1mjfij(βj)n
2: Repeat
3:  for all records i = mj−1 + 1, · · ·, mj do
4:    Get partial posterior function q\i (βj) by removing the approximate factor fij(βj) from the approximate posterior: q\i(βj)=q(βj)/fij(βj)
5:    Update q(βj) by incorporating a single true likelihood function fij(βj) according to Assumed Density Filtering (ADF) [33]: q(βj)=Proj[1Ziq\i(βj)fij(βj)]
6:   Set the approximate factor: fij(βj)=Ziq(βj)q\i(βj)
7:  end for
8: Until parameters converge