We propose a more efficient version of the slice sampler for Dirichlet process mixture models described by Walker (2007). This sampler allows the fitting of infinite mixture models with a wide–range of prior specification. To illustrate this flexiblity we develop a new nonparametric prior for...

This article introduces a new model for transaction prices in the presence of market microstructure noise in order to study the properties of the price process on two different time scales, namely, transaction time where prices are sampled with every transaction and tick time where prices are...

A Bayesian semiparametric stochastic volatility model for financial data is developed. This nonparametrically estimates the return distribution from the data allowing for stylized facts such as heavy tails of the distribution of returns whilst also allowing for correlation between the returns...

This paper develops a rich class of sparsity priors for regression effects that encourage shrinkage of both regression effects and contrasts between effects to zero whilst leaving sizeable real effects largely unshrunk. The construction of these priors uses some properties of normal-gamma...

A multivariate distribution which generalizes the Dirichlet distribution is introduced and its use for modeling overdispersion in count data is discussed. The distribution is constructed by normalizing a vector of independent tempered stable random variables. General formulae for all moments and...