Exact and Monte Carlo calculations of integrated likelihoods for the latent class model

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2991-3002

  Biernacki, C ^a   Celeux, G ^b   Govaert, G ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian model selection; Categorical data; EM algorithm; Gibbs sampler; Importance sampling; Jeffreys conjugate prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954027738     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.03.042     Document Type: Article

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