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stat.CO2018
Fast and accurate approximation of the full conditional for gamma shape parameters
Jeffrey W. Miller
The gamma distribution arises frequently in Bayesian models, but there is not an easy-to-use conjugate prior for the shape parameter of a gamma. This inconvenience is usually dealt…
math.ST2018★ 7 cited
A detailed treatment of Doob's theorem
Jeffrey W. Miller
Doob's theorem provides guarantees of consistent estimation and posterior consistency under very general conditions. Despite the limitation that it only guarantees consistency on a…
math.ST2018
An elementary derivation of the Chinese restaurant process from Sethuraman's stick-breaking process
Jeffrey W. Miller
The Chinese restaurant process (CRP) and the stick-breaking process are the two most commonly used representations of the Dirichlet process. However, the usual proof of the connect…