Finite inverted Dirichlet mixture models play an important part in positive non-Gaussian data analysis.However
it is always different to obtain the analytical solutions to model parameters by using conventional approaches such as maximization likelihood estimation and moment estimation.In this paper
we have proposed a variational inference framework.Within this framework
parameter estimation and automatic model selection can be carried out simulta-neously.Experimental results on synthetic and real-world data sets demonstrate the effectiveness and the merits of the proposed approach.