Hierarchical mixture modeling with normalized inverse-Gaussian priors

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 472, 2005, Pages 1278-1291

  Lijoi, Antonio ^a,b   Mena, Ramsés H ^c   Prünster, Igor ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Ciudad Universitaria   (Mexico)

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

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Density estimation; Dirichlet process; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Mixture models; Predictive distribution; Semiparametric inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144511286     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000132     Document Type: Article

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