Bayesian density estimation using skew student-t-normal mixtures

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5075-5090

  Cabral, Celso Rômulo Barbosa ^a   Bolfarine, Heleno ^b   Pereira, José Raimundo Gomes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HEALTH; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MIXTURES; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; STUDENTS;

(R ,S)-SKEW SYMMETRIC; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BODY MASS INDEX (BMI); DATA SETS; DENSITY ESTIMATION; ELSEVIER (CO); ENVIRONMETRICS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT PER CAPITA; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; HUMAN DEVELOPMENTS; IN ORDER; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; MIXTURE MODEL (MM); MULTI-MODAL; STOCHASTIC REPRESENTATIONS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 47849116171     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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