Normalized random measures driven by increasing additive processes

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2343-2360

  Nieto Barajas, Luis E ^a   Prünster, Igor ^b   Walker, Stephen G ^c  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametric inference; Distribution of means of random probability measures; Increasing additive process; Levy measure; Mixtures of Dirichlet process

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644433245     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000625     Document Type: Article

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