On bayesian analysis of mixtures with an unknown number of components

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 731-792

  Richardson, Sylvia ^a   Green, Peter J ^b  

^a Inst Natl de la Santé   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth and death process; Classification; Galaxy data; Heterogeneity; Lake acidity data; Markov chain monte carlo method; Normal mixtures; Predictive distribution; Reversible jump algorithms; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244378520     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00095     Document Type: Article

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