Smoothness properties and gradient analysis under spatial Dirichlet process models

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-189

  Guindani, Michele ^a   Gelfand, Alan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Directional derivatives; Dirichlet process mixture models; Finite differences; Mat rn correlation function; Nonstationarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747046152     PISSN: 13875841     EISSN: 15737713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11009-006-8547-8     Document Type: Review

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