Semiparametric inference in mixture models with predictive recursion marginal likelihood

Biometrika

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 567-582

  Martin, Ryan ^a   Tokdar, Surya T ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Dirichlet process mixture; Empirical Bayes; Filtering algorithm; Marginal likelihood; Martingale; Mixed effects model; Multiple testing; Profile likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052299365     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr030     Document Type: Article

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