Bounds for Bayesian order identification with application to mixtures

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 938-962

  Chambaz, Antoine ^a   Rousseau, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Mixture; Model selection; Nonparametric Bayesian inference; Order estimation; Rate of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049092099     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053607000000857     Document Type: Article

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