Additive mixed models with Dirichlet process mixture and P-spline priors

AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-68

  Heinzl, Felix ^a   Fahrmeir, Ludwig ^a   Kneib, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process mixture; Mixed models; Nonparametric Bayes inference; Penalized splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855610432     PISSN: 18638171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10182-011-0161-6     Document Type: Article

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