telescope: Bayesian Mixtures with an Unknown Number of Components

Fits Bayesian finite mixtures with an unknown number of components using the telescoping sampler and different component distributions. For more details see Frühwirth-Schnatter et al. (2021) <doi:10.1214/21-BA1294>.

Version: 0.2-1
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: abind, bayesm, DirichletReg, extraDistr, graphics, grDevices, MCMCpack, methods, mvtnorm, stats
Suggests: invgamma, klaR, knitr, mclust, poLCA, rmarkdown
Published: 2025-08-18
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.telescope
Author: Gertraud Malsiner-Walli ORCID iD [aut, cre], Bettina Grün ORCID iD [aut], Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: Gertraud Malsiner-Walli <Gertraud.Malsiner-Walli at wu.ac.at>
License: GPL-2
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: telescope citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: telescope results

Documentation:

Reference manual: telescope.html , telescope.pdf
Vignettes: Bayesian Latent Class Analysis Models with the Telescoping Sampler (source, R code)
Bayesian Mixture of Latent Class Analysis Models with the Telescoping Sampler (source, R code)
Bayesian Poisson Mixtures with the Telescoping Sampler (source, R code)
Bayesian Multivariate Gaussian Mixtures with the Telescoping Sampler (source, R code)
Bayesian Univariate Gaussian Mixtures with the Telescoping Sampler (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: telescope_0.2-1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: telescope_0.2-1.zip, r-release: telescope_0.2-1.zip, r-oldrel: telescope_0.2-1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): telescope_0.2-1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): telescope_0.2-1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): telescope_0.2-1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): telescope_0.2-1.tgz
Old sources: telescope archive

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