Orthogonal polynomial kernels and canonical correlations for Dirichlet measures

Bernoulli

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 548-598

  Griffiths, Robert C ^a   Spanò, Dario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canonical correlations; Dirichlet distribution; Dirichlet multinomial distribution; Ewens's sampling formula; Hahn; Jacobi; Lancaster's problem; Multivariate orthogonal polynomials; Orthogonal polynomial kernels; P lya urns; Poisson Dirichlet distribution; Positive definite sequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884155484     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/11-BEJ403     Document Type: Article

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