A stochastic equation for the law of the random Dirichlet variance

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 495-502

  Epifani, I ^a   Guglielmi, A ^a   Melilli, Eugenio ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributions of functionals of Dirichlet processes; Integral transforms; Moments of a distribution; Stochastic equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544456316     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.08.036     Document Type: Article

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