Splitting and merging components of a nonconjugate Dirichlet process mixture model

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 445-472

  Jain, Sonia ^a   Nealy, Radford M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; Markov chain monte carlo; Nonconjugate prior; Split merge moves

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649182304     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-BA219     Document Type: Article

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