Posterior consistency of species sampling priors

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 581-593

  Jang, Gun Ho ^a   Lee, Jaeyong ^b   Lee, Sangyeol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gibbs partition; Normalized inverse Gaussian process; Pitman Yor process; Poisson Kingman partition; Posterior consistency; Species sampling prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953303954     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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