A Class of Normalized Random Measures with an Exact Predictive Sampling Scheme

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 444-460

  Trippa, Lorenzo ^a   Favaro, Stefano ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian non parametrics; Completely random measures; Coupling from the past method; Dirichlet process; Gibbs type random probability measures; Normalized random measures with independent increments; Predictive distributions; Species sampling problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865357375     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2011.00749.x     Document Type: Article

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