Nonparametric empirical Bayes for the Dirichlet process mixture model

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-14

  McAuliffe, Jon D ^a   Blei, David M ^b   Jordan, Michael I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Clusetring; Density estimation; Gibbs sampling; Kernel density estimates; P lya urn schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644504854     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-006-5196-2     Document Type: Article

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