On the posterior distribution of the number of components in a finite mixture

DOI10.1214/009053604000000788zbMath1056.62037arXivmath/0503673OpenAlexW3105469179MaRDI QIDQ1766126

Agostino Nobile

Publication date: 28 February 2005

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503673

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain Monte Carloprior distributionconstrained estimationfinite mixture distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric inference under constraints (62F30) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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