... Lemm¹

Email: lemm@uni-muenster.de, WWW: http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/${}^\sim$lemm/

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... `field'.²

We may also remark that for example statistical field theories, which encompass quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in their Euclidean formulation, are technically similar to a nonparametric Bayesian approach [249,103,127].

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....³

Besides $\phi$ also the hyperparameters discussed in Chapter 5 belong to the hidden variables $h$.

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... prior.⁴

The variable $\beta$ is, together with the regression function $\phi(x)$, part of the hidden variables $\tilde \phi$ = $(\phi,\beta)$ which determine the likelihood and thus not a hyperparameter. Technically, however, $\beta$ can be treated similar to a regularization factor, being the reason that it is included in this chapter on hyperparameters.

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