Bayesian nonparametric inference on stochastic ordering

Biometrika

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 859-874

  Dunson, David B ^a   Peddada, Shyamal D ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependent Dirichlet process; Hypothesis testing; Mixture model; Nonparametric Bayes inference; Order restriction

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249098833     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asn043     Document Type: Article

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