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International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and the Eighth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
December 19-21, 2001
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Organizers
Satya N. Mishra (University of South Alabama), Chandra M. Gulati (University of Wollongong)

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Bayesian Analysis of Mixture Models Applications to Animal Nutrition Trials
by
Clair Alston

CAT scans are conducted on livestock during nutrition trials. The resulting grayscale values are thought to be 4, 5 or 6 component mixture models. Bayesian techniques are used to estimate the proportion of each component and the parameters of the accompanying mixture distribution.

Date received: December 10, 2001

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