Combining information from several experiments with nonparametric priors

Biometrika

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 697-706

  Mallick, Bani K ^a   Walker, Stephen G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exchangeability; Mixture of Dirichlet processes; Partial exchangeability; Polya urn

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011381769     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/84.3.697     Document Type: Article

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