Bayesian goodness of fit testing with mixtures of triangular distributions

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 337-354

  McVinish, Ross ^a   Rousseau, Judith ^b   Mengersen, Kerrie ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian non parametrics; Consistency; Goodness of fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949085076     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2008.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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