The tails of probabilities chosen from a Dirichlet prior

DOI10.1214/aos/1176345996zbMath0515.62008OpenAlexW1973671118MaRDI QIDQ1051997

Hani Doss, Thomas M. Sellke

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345996

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet process priorstails of probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Sample path properties (60G17)

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