Some properties of the dirichlet-multinomial distribution and its use in prior elicitation

DOI10.1080/03610928708829384zbMath0614.62018MaRDI QIDQ4721380

George T. Duncan, Kathryn Chaloner

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928708829384

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet prior; unimodality; Dirichlet-multinomial distribution; identifiability of mixtures of multinomial distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F15: Bayesian inference

62E10: Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions

62E99: Statistical distribution theory

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• On the Reconciliation of Probability Assessments
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