Approximating the marginal likelihood in mixture models

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2008-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/0804.2414v1

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In Chib (1995), a method for approximating marginal densities in a Bayesian setting is proposed, with one proeminent application being the estimation of the number of components in a normal mixture. As pointed out in Neal (1999) and Fruhwirth-Schnatter (2004), the approximation often fails short of providing a proper approximation to the true marginal densities because of the well-known label switching problem (Celeux et al., 2000). While there exist other alternatives to the derivation of approximate marginal densities, we reconsider the original proposal here and show as in Berkhof et al. (2003) and Lee et al. (2008) that it truly approximates the marginal densities once the label switching issue has been solved.

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