Mixture models for hazard rate functions are widely used tools for addressing the statistical analysis of survival data subject to a censoring mechanism. The present article introduced a new class of vectors of random hazard rate functions that are expressed as kernel mixtures of dependent...

We consider the problem of evaluating the probability of discovering a certain number of new species in a new sample of population units, conditional on the number of species recorded in a basic sample. We use a Bayesian nonparametric approach. The different species proportions are assumed to be...

Species sampling problems have a long history in ecological and biological studies and a number of statistical issues, including the evaluation of species richness, are still to be addressed. In this paper, motivated by Bayesian nonparametric inference for species sampling problems, we consider...

We contribute to the discussion of the paper by Devroye and James, by reviewing some of the most meaningful results that relate the unilateral stable distribution with the asymptotic behavior of the so-called Ewens-Pitman sampling model. Our focus is then on how these results have been exploited...

We study Hoeffding decomposable exchangeable sequences with values in a finite set D={d1,…,dK}. We provide a new combinatorial characterization of Hoeffding decomposability and use this result to show that, for every K≥3, there exists a class of neither Pólya nor i.i.d. D-valued...