Gamma shape mixtures for heavy-tailed distributions

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 756-776

  Venturini, Sergio ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^a   Parmigiani, Giovanni ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis of mixture distributions; Heavy tails; MCBS; Medical expenditures; Tail probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952195487     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOAS156     Document Type: Article

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