Conjugacy as a distinctive feature of the Dirichlet process

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-120

  James, Lancelot F ^a   Lijoi, Antonio ^b   Prünster, Igor ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian non parametrics; Conjugacy; Dirichlet process; Increasing L vy process; Normalized random measure with independent increments; predictive distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645066123     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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