Beta-stacy processes and a generalization of the Pólya-Urn scheme

DOI10.1214/aos/1031594741zbMath0928.62067OpenAlexW1984455046MaRDI QIDQ1372859

Pietro Muliere, Stephen G. Walker

Publication date: 11 January 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1031594741

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian nonparametricsDirichlet processLevy processgeneralized Dirichlet distributiongeneralized Polya-urn schemeneutral to the right process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Markovian processes: estimation (62M09) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Exchangeability for stochastic processes (60G09)

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