A generalization of the Dirichlet distribution

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1-18

  Hankin, Robin K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combinatorics; Constrained optimization; Dirichlet distribution; Multinomial distribution; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953176287     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v033.i11     Document Type: Article

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