On selecting a prior for the precision parameter of Dirichlet process mixture models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3384-3390

  Dorazio, Robert M ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Dirichlet process; Empirical Bayes; Mixture models; Model uncertainty; Objective prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349161818     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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