Gibbs sampling based Bayesian analysis of mixtures with unknown number of components

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-155

  Bhattacharya, Sourabh ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Cross validation; Dirichlet process; Leave one out posterior; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Pseudo bayes factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549116606     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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