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label switching: a standalone construct

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Bayesian statistics

the nonidentifiability of component labels in mixture models, which makes posterior summaries of component parameters meaningless unless it is resolved.

In Bayesian statistics, label switching refers to the nonidentifiability of component labels in mixture models, which makes posterior summaries of component parameters meaningless unless it is resolved. This meaning comes from Stephens (2000) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology.[1]

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References

  1. Stephens, M. (2000). Dealing With Label Switching in Mixture Models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 62(4), 795-809. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9868.00265

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