Bayesian nonparametric location-scale-shape mixtures

DOI10.1007/S11749-015-0446-2zbMATH Open1343.62015arXiv1311.7582OpenAlexW1778178912MaRDI QIDQ285841FDOQ285841

Authors: Antonio Canale, Bruno Scarpa 

Publication date: 19 May 2016

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Abstract: Discrete mixture models are one of the most successful approaches for density estimation. Under a Bayesian nonparametric framework, Dirichlet process location-scale mixture of Gaussian kernels is the golden standard, both having nice theoretical properties and computational tractability. In this paper we explore the use of the skew-normal kernel, which can naturally accommodate several degrees of skewness by the use of a third parameter. The choice of this kernel function allows us to formulate nonparametric location-scale-shape mixture prior with large support and good performance in different applications. Asymptotically, we show that this modelling framework is consistent in frequentist sense. Efficient Gibbs sampling algorithms are also discussed and the performance of the methods are tested through simulations and applications to galaxy velocity and fertility data. Extensions to accommodate discrete data are also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7582

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zbMATH Keywords

model-based clusteringskew-normal distributiondiscrete random probability measuresrounded mixture priors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Bayesian inference (62F15) Density estimation (62G07) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30)

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