Practical bayesian density estimation using mixtures of normals

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 894-902

  Roeder, Kathryn ^a   Wasserman, Larry ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Partially proper prior; Sieve

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744460005     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474044     Document Type: Article

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