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Kamary, Kaniav, Lee, Jeong Eun and Robert, Christian P. (2018) Weakly informative reparameterizations for location-scale mixtures. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 27 (4). pp. 836-848. doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1438900 ISSN 1537-2715.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2018.1438900
Abstract
While mixtures of Gaussian distributions have been studied for more than a century (Pearson, 1894), the construction of a reference Bayesian analysis of those models still remains unsolved, with a general prohibition of the usage of improper priors (Fruhwirth-Schnatter, 2006) due to the ill-posed nature of such statistical objects. This difficulty is usually bypassed by an empirical Bayes resolution (Richardson and Green, 1997). By creating a new parameterisation cantered on the mean and possibly the variance of the mixture distribution itself, we manage to develop here a weakly informative prior for a wide class of mixtures with an arbitrary number of components. We demonstrate that some posterior distributions associated with this prior and a minimal sample size are proper. We provide MCMC implementations that exhibit the expected exchangeability. We only study here the univariate case, the extension to multivariate location-scale mixtures being currently under study. An R package called Ultimixt is associated with this paper.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Statistics |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mixture distributions (Probability theory), Gaussian distribution, Bayesian statistical decision theory | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1537-2715 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 6 June 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 836-848 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/10618600.2018.1438900 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 June 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 June 2019 | ||||||
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