Modelling heterogeneity with and without the Dirichlet process

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 355-375

  Green, Peter J ^a   Richardson, Sylvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Allocation; Bayesian non parametrics; Entropy; Finite mixture distributions; Heterogeneity; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Normal mixtures; Partition; Reversible jump algorithms; Semi parametric density estimation; Sensitivity analysis; Split merge moves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035531242     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00242     Document Type: Article

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