Comparing distributions by using dependent normalized random-measure mixtures

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 499-529

  Griffin, J E ^a   Kolossiatis, M ^b   Steel, M F J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian non parametrics; Dependent distributions; Dirichlet process; Normalized generalized gamma process; Slice sampling; Utility function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878224151     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssb.12002     Document Type: Article

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