Finite mixture of gamma distributions: A conjugate prior

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4369-4378

  Al Saleh, Jamal A ^a   Agarwal, Satish K ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Conjugate prior; Generalized hypergeometric function; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical models; Kobayashi's gamma type function; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mixture gamma distributions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONJUGATE PRIORS; GENERALIZED HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; GIBBS SAMPLING; HIERARCHICAL MODELS; MIXTURE GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34147161205     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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