Bayesian mixed membership models for soft clustering and classification

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work was presented in a plenary lecture at the 28th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society, Dortmund. We are indebted to John Lafferty for his collaboration on the analysis of the PNAS data which we report here, and to Adrian Raftery and Christian Robert for helpful discussions on selecting K. Erosheva’s work was supported by NIH grants 1 RO1 AG023141-01 and R01 CA94212-01, Fienberg’s work was supported by NIH grant 1 RO1 AG023141-01 and by the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique of the Institut National de la Statistique e