On a loss-based prior for the number of components in mixture models

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2019.108656zbMath1459.62034arXiv1807.07874OpenAlexW2981765298WikidataQ127025816 ScholiaQ127025816MaRDI QIDQ2288805

Cristiano Villa, Clara Grazian, Brunero Liseo

Publication date: 20 January 2020

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07874

zbMATH Keywords

clusteringBayesian inferencedefault priorsmixture modelsloss-based priors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Related Items (1)

Generalized mixtures of finite mixtures and telescoping sampling

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