Markov Chain Sampling Methods for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 249-265

  Neal, Radford M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auxiliary variable methods; Density estimation; Latent class models; Metropolis Hasting algorithm; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950032550     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2000.10474879     Document Type: Article

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