Mixture models, latent variables and partitioned importance sampling

Statistical Methodology

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-18

  Casella, George ^a   Robert, Christian P ^b   Wells, Martin T ^c  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes estimation; Gibbs sampling; Monte Carlo methods; Partition decomposition; Posterior probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644771354     PISSN: 15723127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stamet.2004.05.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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