Separation measures and the geometry of bayes factor selection for classification

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 957-980

  Smith, Jim Q ^a   Anderson, Paul E ^a   Liverani, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

priors; Bayes factors; Classification; Clustering; Non conjugate analyses; Separation measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849116462     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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