Description
Merge-Split Samplers for Conjugate Bayesian Nonparametric Models.
Description
Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers for posterior simulations of conjugate Bayesian nonparametric mixture models. Functionality is provided for Gibbs sampling as in Algorithm 3 of Neal (2000) <DOI:10.1080/10618600.2000.10474879>, restricted Gibbs merge-split sampling as described in Jain & Neal (2004) <DOI:10.1198/1061860043001>, and sequentially-allocated merge-split sampling <DOI:10.1080/00949655.2021.1998502>, as well as summary and utility functions.