A new Bayesian approach for determining the number of components in a finite mixture

DOI10.1007/S40300-015-0068-1MaRDI QIDQ497083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date 23 September 2015

Published in Metron (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/74432/1/postprint_Mixture_components_Metron4.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

number of componentsfinite mixturedeviance distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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