Default priors for density estimation with mixture models

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-64

  Griffin, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Dirichlet process mixture models; Mixtures of normals; Normalized generalized gamma processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349263151     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-BA502     Document Type: Article

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