Nonparametric Bayes estimation in repair models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1722-1733

  Sethuraman, Jayaram ^a   Hollander, Myles ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes methods; Dirichlet distributions; General repair models; Partition based Dirichlet priors; Partition based priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649102733     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.05.043     Document Type: Article

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