The nested dirichlet distribution and incomplete categorical data analysis

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 251-271

  Ng, Kai Wang ^a   Tang, Man Lai ^b   Tian, Guo Liang ^a   Tan, Ming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Dirichlet distribution; EM; Incomplete categorical data; Matrix rate of convergence; Mixing rate of a markov chain; Nested dirichlet distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549085976     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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