A semiparametric Bayesian approach to network modelling using Dirichlet process prior distributions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-302

  Ghosh, Pulak ^a   Gill, Paramjit ^a   Muthukumarana, Saman ^b   Swartz, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian semiparametric modelling; Clustering; Dirichlet process; Network models; Social relations; WinBUGS software

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957141997     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2010.00583.x     Document Type: Article

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