Hierarchical reinforced urn processes

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1521-1529

  Fortini, S ^a   Petrone, S ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Hoppe's urn; Infinite hidden Markov models; Mixtures of Markov chains; Partial exchangeability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861407119     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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