A characterization of the Dirichlet distribution through global and local parameter independence

DOI10.1214/AOS/1069362752MaRDI QIDQ1364754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Geiger, David Heckerman

Publication date 29 April 1998

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1069362752

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet priorDirichlet distributiongraphical modelcharacterizationfunctional equationBayesian network structurehyper-Markov law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Functional equations and inequalities (39B99) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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