Adaptive Bayesian multivariate density estimation with Dirichlet mixtures

Biometrika

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 623-640

  Shen, Weining ^a   Tokdar, Surya T ^b   Ghosal, Subhashis ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Dirichlet mixture; Multivariate density estimation; Nonparametric Bayesian method; Rate adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882571393     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/ast015     Document Type: Article

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