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A1724
Title: Bayesian analysis of lognormal mixtures with an unknown number of components from grouped data Authors:  Kazuhiko Kakamu - Nagoya City University (Japan) [presenting]
Abstract: A reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo method is proposed for estimating lognormal mixtures from grouped data. Using the posteriors we also consider the calculation of the Gini coefficient. Using both simulated and real data examples, we examined the performance of the proposed algorithm and the accuracy of the Gini coefficients. From the simulated data, we can confirm that the distributions are estimated accurately even in the case of grouped data and the Gini coefficients are also estimated very well. From the empirical example, we can identify that there exist two subgroups in 2012 in Japan.