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A characterisation of Polya tree distributions

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  • Walker, Stephen
  • Muliere, Pietro

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A Polya tree is characterised by a special class of predictive probabilities.

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  • Walker, Stephen & Muliere, Pietro, 1997. "A characterisation of Polya tree distributions," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 163-168, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:31:y:1997:i:3:p:163-168
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    1. Lo, Albert Y., 1991. "A characterization of the Dirichlet process," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 12(3), pages 185-187, September.
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    Polya trees Predictive distribution;

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