Vectors of two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet processes

  • Authors:
  • Fabrizio Leisen;Antonio Lijoi

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departamento de Estadistica, calle de Madrid 126, 28903 Getafe (Madrid), Spain;Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi, Universití degli Studi di Pavia, via San Felice 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy and Collegio Carlo Alberto, via Real Collegio 30, 10024 Moncalie ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Multivariate Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The definition of vectors of dependent random probability measures is a topic of interest in applications to Bayesian statistics. They 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 Levy 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.