Prediction rules for exchangeable sequences related to species sampling
Suppose an exchangable sequence with values in a nice measurable space S admits a prediction rule of the following form: given the first n terms of the sequence, the next term equals the jth distinct value observed so far with probability pj,n, for j=1,2,... , and otherwise is a new value with distribution [nu] for some probability measure [nu] on S with no atoms. Then the pj,n depend only on the partitition of the first n integers induced by the first n values of the sequence. All possible distributions for such an exchangeable sequence are characterized in terms of constraints on the pj,n and in terms of their de Finetti representations.
Year of publication: |
2000
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Authors: | Hansen, Ben ; Pitman, Jim |
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Statistics & Probability Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-7152. - Vol. 46.2000, 3, p. 251-256
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Exchangeable sequence Prediction rule Species sampling |
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