Approximation of Laws of Multinomial Parameters by Mixtures of Dirichlet Distributions with Applications to Bayesian Inference

Acta Applicandae Mathematicae

Volumn 58, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 247-264

  Regazzini, Eugenio ^a,b   Sazonov, Viatcheslav V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Approximation of priors and posteriors; Dirichlet distributions; Elicitation of prior beliefs; L vy metric; Prokhorov metric; Random measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001235054     PISSN: 01678019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006321613446     Document Type: Article

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