Bayesian mixture models in a longitudinal setting for analysing sheep CAT scan images

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4282-4296

  Alston, C L ^a   Mengersen, K L ^b   Robert, C P ^c,d   Thompson, J M ^e   Littlefield, P J ^e   Perry, D ^e   Ball, A J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^d CREST   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Gibbs sampling; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Markov random field; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Perturbation parameters; Posterior simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TISSUE;

DENSITY ESTIMATION; GIBBS SAMPLING; HASTINGS ALGORITHMS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; PERTURBATION PARAMETERS; POSTERIOR SIMULATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 34147146467     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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