Abstract
In the 1920s the English philosopher W. E. Johnson discovered a simple characterization of the Dirichlet family of conjugate priors for a multinomial distribution having at least three categories. In the present note Johnson's result is extended to the case of a Markov exchangeable sequence.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 175-178 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of Theoretical Probability |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1995 |
Keywords
- Markov exchangeable sequences
- W. E. Johnson
- conjugate prior
- predictive probabilities
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- General Mathematics