Discretisation for inference on normal mixture models

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 209-219

  Brewer, Mark J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Discretisation of continuous parameters; Normal mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346463262     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024214615828     Document Type: Article

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