Bayesian Inference in Mixtures-of-Experts and Hierarchical Mixtures-of-Experts Models with an Application to Speech Recognition

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 435, 1996, Pages 953-960

  Peng, Fengchun ^a   Jacobs, Robert A ^b   Tanner, Martin A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030327271     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476965     Document Type: Article

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