Bayesian semiparametric modeling and inference with mixtures of symmetric distributions

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-106

  Kottas, Athanasios ^a   Fellingham, Gilbert W ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process prior; Identifiability; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mixture deconvolution; Scale uniform mixtures

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955167667     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-010-9208-x     Document Type: Article

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