Nonparametric hierarchical Bayes via sequential imputations

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 911-930

  Liu, Jun S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Empirical Bayes; Gibbs sampler; Importance sampling; P lya urn; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030487956     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032526949     Document Type: Article

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