Means of a Dirichlet process and multiple hypergeometric functions

Annals of Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1469-1495

  Lijoi, Antonio ^a   Regazzini, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distribution of means of a random probability measure; Functional Dirichlet probability distribution; Generalized gamma convolutions; Lauricella functions; Markov Krein identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042549467     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117904000000270     Document Type: Article

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