Exact and approximate sum representations for the Dirichlet process

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 269-283

  Ishwaran, Hemant ^a   Zarepour, Mahmoud ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Almost sure truncation; Finite dimensional Dirichlet prior; L vy measure; Poisson process; Random probability measure; Stick breaking prior; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036623091     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315951     Document Type: Article

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