Bayesian analysis of mixture modelling using the multivariate t distribution

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-130

  Lin, Tsung I ^a   Lee, Jack C ^b   Ni, Huey F ^b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ECM; ECME; Maximum a posteriori; Maximum likelihood estimation; MCMC; t mixture model

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943111574     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:STCO.0000021410.33077.10     Document Type: Article

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