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

DOI10.1080/03610928708829384zbMath0614.62018OpenAlexW2087571625MaRDI 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 priorunimodalityDirichlet-multinomial distributionidentifiability of mixtures of multinomial distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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Cites Work

• On the Reconciliation of Probability Assessments
• Assessment of a Prior Distribution for the Correlation Coefficient in a Bivariate Normal Distribution
• Identifiability of Mixtures

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