Abstract #301650

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301650
Activity Number: 382
Type: Luncheons
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Bayesian Stat. Sciences
Abstract - #301650
Title: Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling and Inference
Author(s): Wesley Orin Johnson*+
Companies: University of California
Address: Division of Statistics, Davis, CA, 95616,
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Relatively recent computational breakthroughs in Markov chain Monte Carlo statistical methods have made it possible to extend the Bayesian paradigm, in a practical way, to problems involving broad classes of distributions. Our discussion will focus on the basic ideas and methods involved in Bayesian nonparametric inference.

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