Hierarchical mixture models for assessing fingerprint individuality

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1448-1466

  Dass, Sarat C ^a   Li, Mingfei ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Fingerprint individuality; Gaussian mixtures; Model based clustering; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958758551     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS266     Document Type: Article

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