Size-biased sampling and discrete nonparametric Bayesian inference

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 123-148

  Ongaro, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Discrete random probability measure; Random relabelling scheme

Indexed keywords

EID: 15344343977     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2003.10.005     Document Type: Article

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