Bayesian mixture modeling for spatial Poisson process intensities, with applications to extreme value analysis

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3151-3163

  Kottas, Athanasios ^a   Sansó, Bruno ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Bivariate Beta density; Dirichlet process mixture model; Random intensity function; Spatial point patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250186433     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.05.022     Document Type: Article

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