Bayesian inference on finite mixtures of distributions

Perspectives In Mathematical Science I: Probability And Statistics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 165-202

  Lee, Kate ^a   Marin, Jean Michel ^b   Mengersen, Kerrie ^a   Robert, Christian ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

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