Nonparametric Bayesian modeling for stochastic order

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 865-876

  Gelfand, Alan E ^a   Kottas, Athanasios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process mixing; Linear functional; Monte Carlo sampling and integration; Semiparametric models

Indexed keywords

EID: 6644223092     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014629724913     Document Type: Article

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