Mixtures of gamma distributions with applications

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 440-454

  Wiper, Michael ^a   Insua, David Rios ^b   Ruggeri, Fabrizio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Mcmc; Queues; Reversible jump

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035600106     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186001317115054     Document Type: Article

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