Asymptotics for a Bayesian nonparametric estimator of species richness

In Bayesian nonparametric inference, random discrete probability measures are commonly used as priors within hierarchical mixture models for density estimation and for inference on the clustering of the data. Recently it has been shown that they can also be exploited in species sampling problems: indeed they are natural tools for modeling the random proportions of species within a population thus allowing for inference on various quantities of statistical interest. For applications that involve large samples, the exact evaluation of the corresponding estimators becomes impracticable and, therefore, asymptotic approximations are sought. In the present paper we study the limiting behaviour of the number of new species to be observed from further sampling, conditional on observed data, assuming the observations are exchangeable and directed by a normalized generalized gamma process prior. Such an asymptotic study highlights a connection between the normalized generalized gamma process and the two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet process that was previously known only in the unconditional case.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Favaro, Stefano ; Lijoi, Antonio ; Prunster, Igor
Publisher:	Pavia : Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi (EPMQ)
Subject:	Bayesian Nonparametrics \| Species sampling models \| Asymptotics \| sdiversity \| Polynomially and exponentially tilted random variables \| Completely random measures \| Normalized generalized gamma process \| Two parameter PoissonDirichlet process

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Series:	Quaderni di Dipartimento ; 144
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	783569114 [GVK] hdl:10419/95269 [Handle] RePEc:pav:wpaper:144 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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