Overfitting Bayesian Mixture Models with an Unknown Number of Components

Zoé van Havre; Nicole White; Judith Rousseau; Kerrie Mengersen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131739

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Overfitting Bayesian Mixture Models with an Unknown Number of Components

Zoé van Havre ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoé van Havre, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Kerrie Mengersen

* E-mail: zoe.vanhavre@qut.edu.au

Affiliations School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
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Nicole White ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoé van Havre, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Kerrie Mengersen

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Judith Rousseau ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoé van Havre, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Kerrie Mengersen

Affiliation CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
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Kerrie Mengersen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoé van Havre, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Kerrie Mengersen

Affiliation CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
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Overfitting Bayesian Mixture Models with an Unknown Number of Components

Zoé van Havre,
Nicole White,
Judith Rousseau,
Kerrie Mengersen

Published: July 15, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131739

About the Authors

Zoé van Havre

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoé van Havre, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Kerrie Mengersen

* E-mail: zoe.vanhavre@qut.edu.au

Affiliations School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France

Nicole White

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoé van Havre, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Kerrie Mengersen

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Judith Rousseau

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoé van Havre, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Kerrie Mengersen

Affiliation CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France

Kerrie Mengersen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoé van Havre, Nicole White, Judith Rousseau, Kerrie Mengersen

Affiliation CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZvH NW JR KM. Performed the experiments: ZvH NW JR KM. Analyzed the data: ZvH NW JR KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZvH NW JR KM. Wrote the paper: ZvH NW JR KM.

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