Importance sampling schemes for evidence approximation in mixture models

DOI10.1214/15-BA970zbMath1357.62116arXiv1311.6000MaRDI QIDQ516488

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 14 March 2017

Published in: Bayesian Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6000

zbMATH Keywords

importance samplingmarginal likelihoodmixture modelsmodel evidence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Keeping the balance -- bridge sampling for marginal likelihood estimation in finite mixture, mixture of experts and Markov mixture models

Uses Software

• Label.switching

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