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Bayesian Inference on Mixtures of Distributions

Computation 2008-04-16 v1 Methodology

Abstract

This survey covers state-of-the-art Bayesian techniques for the estimation of mixtures. It complements the earlier Marin, Mengersen and Robert (2005) by studying new types of distributions, the multinomial, latent class and t distributions. It also exhibits closed form solutions for Bayesian inference in some discrete setups. Lastly, it sheds a new light on the computation of Bayes factors via the approximation of Chib (1995).

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@article{arxiv.0804.2413,
  title  = {Bayesian Inference on Mixtures of Distributions},
  author = {Kate Lee and Jean-Michel Marin and Kerrie Mengersen and Christian P. Robert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2413},
  year   = {2008}
}

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24 pages

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