On the support of MacEachern's dependent dirichlet processes and extensions

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 277-310

  Barrientos, Andrés F ^a   Jaray, Alejandro ^a   Quintana, Fernando A ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Copulas; Hellinger support; Kullback Leibler support; Related probability distributions; Stick breaking processes; Weak support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865733633     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-BA709     Document Type: Article

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