Theory and numerical analysis for exact distributions of functionals of a dirichlet process

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1376-1411

  Regazzini, Eugenio ^a,b   Guglielmi, Alessandra ^b   Di Nunno, Giulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Distribution of (a vector of) linear functionals; Numerical approximation of the exact distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036432576     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1035844980     Document Type: Article

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