A class of measure-valued Markov chains and Bayesian nonparametrics

DOI10.3150/11-BEJ356zbMath1243.62064arXiv1207.6228MaRDI QIDQ442087

Stephen G. Walker, Alessandra Guglielmi, Stefano Favaro

Publication date: 9 August 2012

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6228

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet processrandom probability measuresmixture modelingexchangeable sequenceslinear functionals of Dirichlet processesPólya urn scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Bayesian inference (62F15) Random measures (60G57) Exchangeability for stochastic processes (60G09)

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