On Bayes inference for a bathtub failure rate via S-paths

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 827-850

  Ho, Man Wai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accelerated path sampler; Completely random measure; Gibbs sampler; Random partition; Rao Blackwellization; Sequential importance sampling

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PATH SAMPLER; GIBBS SAMPLERS; RANDOM MEASURES; RANDOM PARTITIONS; RAO-BLACKWELLIZATION; SEQUENTIAL IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79960041428     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-009-0253-1     Document Type: Article

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