A Hierarchial Dirichlet Process Prior
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By taking the governing measure of a Dirichlet process as essentially the realization of a Dirichlet process itself, a hierarchical Dirichlet process emerges. This distribution enables the Bayesian treatment of two level hierarchical random effects models, with results paralleling those of Ferguson (1973).
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