Parametric and nonparametric Bayesian model specification: A case study involving models for count data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2110-2128

  Krnjajić, Milovan ^a   Kottas, Athanasios ^b   Draper, David ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process mixture model; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Random effects Poisson model; Stochastically ordered distributions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DIRICHLET PROCESS MIXTURE MODEL; RANDOM-EFFECTS POISSON MODEL; STOCHASTICALLY ORDERED DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 35948952011     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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