An enriched conjugate prior for Bayesian nonparametric inference

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 359-386

  Wade, Sara ^a   Mongelluzzo, Silvia ^a   Petrone, Sonia ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametric inference; Conjugate priors; Dirichlet process; Generalized Dirichlet; Mixture models; Multivariate random distribution functions; P lya urns

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455205691     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-BA614     Document Type: Article

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