Bayesian analysis of finite mixture models of distributions from exponential families

Authors:
M. J. Rufo;J. Martín;C. J. Pérez
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain 10071;Department of Mathematics, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain 10071;Department of Mathematics, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain 10071
Venue:
Computational Statistics
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper deals with the Bayesian analysis of finite mixture models with a fixed number of component distributions from natural exponential families with quadratic variance function (NEF-QVF). A unified Bayesian framework addressing the two main difficulties in this context is presented, i.e., the prior distribution choice and the parameter unidentifiability problem. In order to deal with the first issue, conjugate prior distributions are used. An algorithm to calculate the parameters in the prior distribution to obtain the least informative one into the class of conjugate distributions is developed. Regarding the second issue, a general algorithm to solve the label-switching problem is presented. These techniques are easily applied in practice as it is shown with an illustrative example.