Exact inference for random dirichlet means

Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 227-254

  Hjort, Nils Lid ^a   Ongaro, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bernshte n von Mises theorems; Dirichlet process; Hilbert and Stieltjes transforms; Mixtures; Nonparametric Bayes; Random probability measure; Stochastic equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344486758     PISSN: 13870874     EISSN: 15729311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11203-005-6068-7     Document Type: Article

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