Notes on the Scaled Dirichlet Distribution

Compositional Data Analysis: Theory and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 128-138

  Monti, Gianna Serafina ^a   Mateu Figueras, Glòria ^b   Pawlowsky Glahn, Vera ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aitchison geometry, a scaled Dirichlet distribution perturbing the Dirichlet one; Bayesian inference, and Dirichlet distribution natural conjugate prior for multinomial likelihood; Compositional data definition parts of some whole; Dirichlet distribution, exhibiting maximum form of independence compatible with unit sum constraint; Genesis of scaled Dirichlet distribution best known distribution, for categorical data modelling; Measures of location and variability and mode of Dirichlet distribution; Membership in exponential family densities of multidimensional exponential families; Notes on the scaled Dirichlet distribution; Properties of scaled Dirichlet distribution probabilistic properties, classical and Aitchison representations; Special algebraic geometric structure of simplex scaled Dirichlet density, translation of a Dirichlet density

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879309218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119976462.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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