A characterization of the Dirichlet distribution through global and local parameter independence

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1344-1369

  Geiger, Dan ^a   Heckerman, David ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Characterization; Dirichlet distribution; Functional equation; Graphical model; hyper Markov law

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031510558     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1069362752     Document Type: Article

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