Approximation of Laws of Random Probabilities by Mixtures of Dirichlet Distributions with Applications to Nonparametric Bayesian Inference

DOI10.1137/S0040585X97978063zbMath0984.60030MaRDI QIDQ2752970

Eugenio Regazzini, Viatcheslav V. Sazonov

Publication date: 22 October 2001

Published in: Theory of Probability & Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet processesrandom measuresProkhorov metricLévy metricDirichlet distributionsapproximation of priors and posteriorselicitation of prior beliefs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution theory (60E99) Probability theory on algebraic and topological structures (60B99)

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