Bayesian density estimation and model selection using nonparametric hierarchical mixtures

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 816-832

  Argiento, Raffaele ^a   Guglielmi, Alessandra ^b   Pievatolo, Antonio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALMOST SURE; BAYES FACTOR; BAYESIAN; DENSITY ESTIMATION; FITTING MODEL; FUNCTIONALS; GENERALIZED GAMMA; HIERARCHICAL MIXTURES; HISTORICAL DATA; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MIXING MEASURE; MIXING PROCESS; MODEL SELECTION; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC ALTERNATIVES; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; POSITIVE REAL; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

MIXTURES;

EID: 73149115734     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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