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Ferguson's Dirichlet Process Breakthrough: A Lasting Legacy
Antonio Lijoi, Igor Pruenster, Junyi Zhang
Ferguson's 1973 introduction of the Dirichlet process marked a breakthrough in Bayesian nonparametric statistics. For the first time, a prior on the space of probability measures f…
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Multivariate Species Sampling Models
Beatrice Franzolini, Antonio Lijoi, Igor Prünster +1
Species sampling processes have long served as the fundamental framework for modeling random discrete distributions and exchangeable sequences. However, data arising from distinct…
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Markov Stick-breaking Processes
MarÃa F. Gil-Leyva, Antonio Lijoi, Ramsés H. Mena +1
Stick-breaking has a long history and is one of the most popular procedures for constructing random discrete distributions in Statistics and Machine Learning. In particular, due to…