On the posterior distribution of the number of components in a finite mixture

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2044-2073

  Mobile, Agostino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Constrained estimation; Finite mixture distribution; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Prior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344434627     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000788     Document Type: Article

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