Distributional results for means of normalized random measures with independent increments

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 560-585

  Regazzini, Eugenio ^a,b   Lijoi, Antonio ^a   Prünster, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

(normalized) random measure with independent increments; Dirichlet process; Distribution of means of random probability measures; Increasing additive processes; L vy measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038702581     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1051027881     Document Type: Article

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