Probabilistic relabelling strategies for the label switching problem in Bayesian mixture models

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-366

  Sperrin, M ^a   Jaki, T ^a   Wit, E ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Identifiability; Label switching; MCMC; Mixture model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953478408     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-009-9129-8     Document Type: Article

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