Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95267 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni di Dipartimento No. 119
Publisher: 
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi (EPMQ), Pavia
Abstract: 
The definition of vectors of dependent random probability measures is a topic of interest in applications to Bayesian statistics. They, indeed, represent dependent nonparametric prior distributions that are useful for modelling observables for which specific covariate values are known. In this paper we propose a vector of two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet processes. It is well-known that each component can be obtained by resorting to a change of measure of a s-stable process. Thus dependence is achieved by applying a L´evy copula to the marginal intensities. In a two-sample problem, we determine the corresponding partition probability function which turns out to be partially exchangeable. Moreover, we evaluate predictive and posterior distributions.
Subjects: 
Bayesian nonparametric statistics
Bivariate completely random measures
L´evy copula
Partial exchangeability
Poisson-Dirichlet process
Posterior distribution
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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