Non parametric mixture priors based on an exponential random scheme

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-20

  Petrone, Sonia ^a   Veronese, Piero ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bernstein polynomials; Density estimation; Feller operators; Hierarchical models; Mixture models; Non parametric Bayesian inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844278619     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02511443     Document Type: Article

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