Gaussian mixture Gibbs updates with independent priors

ID: gaussian-mixture-gibbs-updates-with-independent-priors

In a finite normal distribution mixture with allocation labels , independently assign , and weights a Dirichlet distribution. Let count allocations to component and sum their observations. The conditional mean precision is , giving . The conditional variance is the displayed inverse-gamma distribution; weights have Dirichlet parameters increased by allocation counts. Allocation probabilities are proportional to . Independence of the mean prior from is important: its density does not add an extra inverse-gamma shape term.

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