Nonparametric bayes conditional distribution modeling with variable selection

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 488, 2009, Pages 1646-1660

  Chung, Yeonseung ^a   Dunson, David B ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional distribution estimation; Hypothesis testing; Kernel stick breaking process; Mixture of experts; Stochastic search variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049106134     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08302     Document Type: Article

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