Bayesian analysis of finite mixtures of Weibull distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-48

  Tsionas, Efthymios G ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical models

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244434433     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120002433     Document Type: Article

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