Bayesian density estimation using Bernstein polynomials

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-126

  Petrone, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bernstein polynomials; Density estimation; Dirichlet process; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033441233     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315494     Document Type: Article

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