. It is shown that Bayesian inference from data modeled by a mixture distribution can feasibly be performed via Monte Carlo simulation. This method exhibits the true Bayesian predictive distribution, implicitly integrating over the entire underlying parameter space. An infinite number of mixture components can be accommodated without difficulty, using a prior distribution for mixing proportions that selects a reasonable subset of components to explain any finite training set. The need to decide on a "correct" number of components is thereby avoided. The feasibility of the method is shown empirically for a simple classification task. Introduction Mixture distributions [8, 20] are an appropriate tool for modeling processes whose output is thought to be generated by several different underlying mechanisms, or to come from several different populations. One aim of a mixture model analysis may be to identify and characterize these underlying "latent classes" [2, 7], either for some scient...