On the stick-breaking representation of normalized inverse Gaussian priors

Biometrika

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 663-674

  Favaro, S ^a   Lijoi, A ^b   Prunster I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametric inference; Dirichlet process; Normalized inverse Gaussian process; Random probability measure; Stick breaking representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865452997     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/ass023     Document Type: Article

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