Functionals of Dirichlet processes, the Cifarelli-Regazzini identity and Beta-Gamma processes

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 647-660

  James, Lancelot F ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Beta Gamma processes; Dirichlet process; Gamma process; Markov Krein identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944482165     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000001237     Document Type: Review

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