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Global class proportion parameters, $ \vec{\pi}$

This is only required for model 1. This is sampled from using Metropolis-Hastings. The following terms are recalculated for each parameter change:
    $\displaystyle \prod_i^N \sum_{k=1}^K \{ \pi_k w_{ik}p(y_i\vert x_i=k,\theta_k)\}$  
    $\displaystyle p(\vec{\pi})$ (31)