Some Aspects of Polya Tree Distributions for Statistical Modelling
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More Aspects of Polya Tree Distributions for Statistical Modelling
The deenition and elementary properties of Polya tree distributions are reviewed. Two theorems are presented showing that Polya trees can be constructed to concentrate arbitrarily closely about any desired pdf, and that Polya tree priors can put positive mass in every relative entropy neighborhood of every positive density with nite entropy, thereby satisfying a consistency condition. Such theo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Statistics
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0090-5364
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176348767