A characterisation of polya tree distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 163-168

  Walker, Stephen ^a   Muliere, Pietro ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Polya trees; Predictive distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031574615     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(96)00028-4     Document Type: Article

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