The history of the Dirichlet and Liouville distributions

International Statistical Review

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 433-446

  Gupta, Rameshwar D ^a   Richards, Donald St P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Celestial mechanics; Characterization properties; Complete neutrality; Compositional data; Convolution family; Dependence properties; Dirichlet process; Inverse gaussian distribution; Multinomial distribution; Neutrality; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035528673     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2001.tb00468.x     Document Type: Review

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