Posterior consistency of dirichlet location-scale mixture of normals in density estimation and regression

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-110

  Tokdar, Surya T ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Dirichlet process; Location scale mixtures; Posterior consistency; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751551247     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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