A fast distance-based approach for determining the number of components in mixtures

DOI10.2307/3315900zbMath1039.62022OpenAlexW2110162240MaRDI QIDQ4457766

Sujit K. Sahu, Russell C. H. Cheng

Publication date: 25 March 2004

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315900

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain Monte CarloBayes factorGibbs samplermixture modelKullback-Leibler distancereversible jump

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

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