Computational and Inferential Difficulties with Mixture Posterior Distributions

DOI10.2307/2669477zbMath0999.62020OpenAlexW3125841640MaRDI QIDQ4541320

Gilles Celeux, Merrilee A. Hurn, Christian P. Robert Robert

Publication date: 30 July 2002

Full work available at URL: https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00073049/file/RR-3627.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

classificationMarkov chain Monte Carloloss functionssimulated temperinglabel switchingnonidentifiability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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