On consistency of nonparametric normal mixtures for bayesian density estimation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 472, 2005, Pages 1292-1296

  Lijoi, Antonio ^a,b   Prünster, Igor ^a,c   Walker, Stephen G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c International Center of Economic Research (ICER)   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Density estimation; Mixture of dirichlet process; Neutral to the right process; Normal mixture model; Normalized random measure; Random discrete distribution; Species sampling model; Strong consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144484266     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000358     Document Type: Article

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