Estimating Normal Means with a Dirichlet Process Prior

作者: Michael D. Escobar

DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1994.10476468

关键词: Bayes' theoremEstimatorImportance samplingPrior probabilityMathematicsMonte Carlo methodDirichlet processMathematical optimizationNonparametric statisticsApplied mathematicsGibbs sampling

摘要: … Instead of using a frequentist estimate of G, this article presents a nonparametric Bayesian analysis using a Dirichlet process as a prior distribution on the family of distributions for G. …

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